Psychoneuroimmunology has emerged as a discipline advancing our knowledge of the relationships among psychosocial factors, the central nervous system, the immune system, and disease. The growing volume of evidence suggests that psychological states, including exposure to stressors and the presence of depressive states, may influence health and disease by altering immunologic states. Psychoneuroimmunology, a collaborative work of 50 international experts, expands on the American Psychiatric AssociationAs symposium on this topic to present never-before-compiled scientific research from this evolving field. Maintaining a clinical focus, this book illustrates clinical effects by examining relevant research studies and models including -Psychoneuroimmunological factors involved in specific illnesses such as cervical cancer, breast cancer and HIV/AIDS -The role psychoneuroimmunology plays in carcinogenesis and the progression of established tumors, as well as findings on the progression of cancer that have general clinical relevance -The effects of specific psychotropic medications; the effects of life stressors, bereavement, and and social support; the response to those stressors; and stress management and psychosocial predictors of disease -The impacts of gender-specific factors, diurnal variation, and behavioral genetics on the immune function -The Stressor-Support-Coping model, which integrates existing psychoneuroimmunology findings and lays the groundwork for use in support group intervention This book is a first step toward organizing psychoneuroimmunology findings into coherent theoretical models and concludes with a look at future clinical applications. Complete with charts, references, and a detailed index, it is the most comprehensive source on psychoneuroimmunology.
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"This is a well-written compilation of papers on the current state of knowledge in the field."-- "American Journal of Psychiatry 158:10", "October 2001"
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Karl Goodkin, M.D., Ph.D., is in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neurology and Psychology at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. He also works at the Helen Dowling Institute for Biopsychosocial Medicine, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Adriaan P. Visser, Ph.D., is with the Helen Dowling Institute for Biopsychosocial Medicine, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
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The book by Karl Goodkin and Adriaan Visser is excellent joint venture provided by the researches from Europe and USA. It not very easy book but for the people wanted enrich the knowledge about should find it positive. Each chapter talks about possible impact of PNI on the one field of medicine. Stress, oncology, AIDS are the main topics in this book. Every chapter has a rich references section so everybody who wants to "dig in" deeper in the particular field has good starting point. I recommend this book for the physiscians, psychologists, immunologists and people working on the frontier of the PNI - it very good update.
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The book by Karl Goodkin and Adriaan Visser is excellent joint venture provided by the researches from Europe and USA. It not very easy book but for the people wanted enrich the knowledge about should find it positive. Each chapter talks about possible impact of PNI on the one field of medicine. Stress, oncology, AIDS are the main topics in this book. Every chapter has a rich references section so everybody who wants to "dig in" deeper in the particular field has good starting point. I recommend this book for the physiscians, psychologists, immunologists and people working on the frontier of the PNI - it very good update.
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In recent decades, psychoneuroimmunology has emerged as a distinct discipline, advancing our knowledge of the relationships among psychosocial factors, the central nervous system (CNS), the immune system, and disease. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stressor count, bereavement support group intervention, life stressor impact, coping style score, minor cognitive changes, negative life stressors, stressor burden, immune measures, recreational substance use, serostatus notification, natural history cohort, immunologic measures, enumerative measures, active coping style, cell cytotoxicity, social support availability, psychoneuroimmunology research, prospective integration, adrenomedullary system, progression markers, early symptomatic stage, passive coping styles, malignant melanoma patients, pathologic grief, mosexual men Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Arch Gen Psychiatry, Psychosom Med, Brain Behav Immun, Ann Neurol, American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Neurology, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Psychosom Res, Arch Neurol, Consult Clin Psychol, Behav Med, Biol Psychiatry, Clin Oncol, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Academic Press, Cancer Res, San Diego, Task Force, Clin Exp Neuropsychol, Health Psychol, Psychol Bull, Acta Neurol Scand, National Institute of Mental Health, Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci New!
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