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Psychosocial effects on immune function: neuroendocrine pathways
1Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Psychosomatics
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Psychoneuroimmunology represents the newest interdisciplinary endeavor relevant to psychosomatic medicine. Work in this area is particularly exciting because it promises to reveal a more unified view of the individual and the complex interactions between social, psychological, neural, endocrinological, immunological, and genetic factors that contribute to disease. This article reviews the major biological pathways implicated in the psychosocial modulation of immune function and disease resistance.