[Main issues of psychoneuroimmunology: Part I]

Psychoneuroimmunology is concerned with interdependent links between psyche, nervous, endocrine and immune systems. The origin of this scientific discipline is a breakthrough in the way of thinking about the functioning of a person and contributes to the holistic attitude. The results of research in psychoneuroimmunology are of particular significance for psychosomatic medicine since they explain in a systemic way earlier clinical observations and scientific studies concerning the influence of stress on the health condition. Studies of the immune system conditioning are becoming a direction which is cognitively significant and clinically important. The aim of the standard immune system conditioning by pharmacological means is to activate the potential for the human body to cope with disease.