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Poetry writing and secretory immunoglobulin A
Geoff Lowe1, Joanne Beckett, Gillian Lowe
1Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Hull, UK. G.Lowe@hull.ac.uk
Psychological Reports
|July 5, 2003
Abstract:
17 healthy students provided saliva samples for Immunoglobulin A (s-IgA) assay before and after sessions of either writing poetry or reading magazines (control). Levels of s-IgA increased after the poetry-writing sessions but not after reading.