Psychoneuroimmunology

R. Dantzer

doi:10.1016/B978-012373947-6.00318-4

Psychoneuroimmunology

R. Dantzer

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Can stress and depression precipitate the onset of cancer or other somatic diseases and influence their evolution? Reciprocally, can humor and positive emotions boost immune defenses and help resist the pathological process? Although claims for the existence of such powerful influences of the mind on the body are common in magazines and popular books on self-help and healing, there is no unanimous scientific answer to these questions. The way these issues are framed has evolved considerably since the early 1980s, thanks to the burgeoning of a new multidisciplinary field that is known as psychoneuroimmunology or neuroimmunomodulation, which addresses the way the nervous system and the immune system interact with each other. © 2007

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Stress
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	284-287
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9780123739476
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012373947-6.00318-4
State	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes

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General Neuroscience

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