 Shared nervous-immune system organizational characteristics have been proposed (Nataf 2016). As in the visual processing areas of the brain, where distinct features of a visual object (shape, color, motion) are perceived separately by distinct neuronal populations (C. Gilbert 2013), the immune system utilizes dedicated cells and receptors to process fragmentary signals that discern distinct features of its environment (Swiatczak, Rescigno, and Cohen 2011). These signals are then integrated by higher-level processing, which, by computing information from their respective “receptive fields”, produce a unified representation of the antigen. Such a distributed image parallels activities of higher cortical areas. So, analogous to the nervous system, the immune system perceives immune objects by assembling discrete signals (immunogens, cytokines, chemokines, etc.) obtained as informational elements derived from various cell types, which, in an ascending integration, generate a multitude of T-cell and B-cell responses (Nataf 2016). In this schema, the integrative process occurring in lymphoid aggregates is the functional equivalent to the brain that employs an analogous hierarchal structure to process information. Indeed, the nervous and immune systems are highly integrated, both physiologically and anatomically. They share many of the same messenger molecules, have close developmental histories both in phylogeny and ontogeny, and intersect biochemically (Ader 2006).