Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives.

Thomas Ritz1, Melissa A Rosenkranz, Juan C Celedón

  • 1Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, (Ritz); Center for Healthy Minds, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, (Rosenkranz); Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (Celedón); Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, (Davenport); Faculty of Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Sciences and Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK (Djukanovic); Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, and Department of Pediatrics, Division of Academic General Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, New York, New York, (Feldman); Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Alberta Respiratory Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Forsythe); University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Madison, Wisconsin, (Jajour); Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, BIO5 Institute, and Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, (Vercelli); Research Group Health Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (von Leupoldt); Department of Environmental Medicine, Department of Public Health, and Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, (Wright).

Summary

Asthma research integrates biomedical and psychobiological insights, highlighting the need for further study on gene-microbiome-psychosocial interactions and brain-body connections for holistic treatment.

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