Human psychoneuroimmunology

著者

• Vedhara, Kavita
• Irwin, Michael R.

書誌事項

Human psychoneuroimmunology

edited by Kavita Vedhara and Michael R. Irwin

Oxford University Press, 2005

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Mind-body interactions have been the subject of debate for many generations. However, it is only in recent years that these interactions have become the subject of rigorous scientific enquiry. Advances in our understanding of the stress process, the endocrine and immune systems and the methodologies used to investigate these phenomena have resulted in an explosion of research activity in the field known as Psychoneuroimmunology. This book presents an up to date account of the human evidence in this field. The first three chapters introduce the reader to the biological systems at the heart of mind/body interactions and the methods used to investigate them. Thereafter, each chapter deals with a separate clinical entity; examining the theoretical basis for mind/body interactions; the associated empirical evidence and directions for future research. With each chapter written by international experts in the field, it provides the reader with an up-to-date account of the research evidence in the new and rapidly evolving field of psychoneuroimmunology.

目次

• 1. Introduction to immunology and immune-endocrine interactions
• 2. Psychological stress and endocrine axes
• 3. Assessment of the immune system in human psychoneuroimmunology
• 4. Psychoneuroimmunology and ageing
• 5. Psychoneuroimmunology and coronary heart disease
• 6. Psychoneuroimmunology and chronic malignant disease: cancer
• 7. Psychoneuroimmunology and chronic viral disease: HIV infection
• 8. Psychoneuroimmunology and chronic autoimmune disease: rheumatoid arthritis
• 9. Infectious disease and psychoneuroimmunology
• 10. Depression and psychoneuroimmunology
• 11. Wound healing and psychoneuroimmunology
• 12. Behavioural interventions and psychoneuroimmunology
• 13. Emotional disclosure and psychoneuroimmunology
• Integrative summary: on the clinical relevance of psychoneuroimmunology

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA73468073
• ISBN:
  • 019852840X
  • 0198568843
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: vii, 356 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm