Introduction to psychoneuroimmunology /
Psychoneuroimmunology investigates the relationships between behavior, psychosocial factors, the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems, and disease. Each system affects the others, enhancing and/or inhibiting processes elsewhere in the body. Research in this field has grown tremendously in recent y...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Academic Press,
�2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface.
- Acknowledgements.
- Introduction.
- Historical Antecedents.
- Immune System Basics.
- Endocrine-Immune Modulation.
- Neuro-Immune Modulation.
- Stress, Contextual Change, and Disease.
- Psychosocial Stress: Neuroendocrine and Immune Effects.
- Infection, Allergy, and Psychosocial Stress.
- Immune Activity and Psychopathology.
- Immune Function Enhancement.
- Integration and Implications.
- Glossary.
- Index.
- Historical antecedents
- Immune system basics
- Endocrine-immune modulation
- Neuro-immune modulation
- Stress, contextual change, and disease
- Psychosocial stress: neuroendocrine and immune effects
- Infection, allergy, and psychosocial stress
- Cancer, autoimmunity, and psychosocial stress
- Immune activity and psychopathology
- Immune function enhancement
- Integration and implications.