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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Daruna, Jorge Hilarion
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.