Psychoneuroimmunology has emerged as a discipline advancing our knowledge of the relationships among psychosocial factors, the central nervous system, the immune system, and disease. The growing volume of evidence suggests that psychological states, including exposure to stressors and the presence of depressive states, may influence health and disease by altering immunologic states.
Psychoneuroimmunology, a collaborative work of 50 international experts, expands on the American Psychiatric Association’s symposium on this topic to present never-before-compiled scientific research from this evolving field. Maintaining a clinical focus, this book illustrates clinical effects by examining relevant research studies and models including
- Psychoneuroimmunological factors involved in specific illnesses such as cervical cancer, breast cancer and HIV/AIDS
- The role psychoneuroimmunology plays in carcinogenesis and the progression of established tumors, as well as findings on the progression of cancer that have general clinical relevance
- The effects of specific psychotropic medications; the effects of life stressors, bereavement, and and social support; the response to those stressors; and stress management and psychosocial predictors of disease
- The impacts of gender-specific factors, diurnal variation, and behavioral genetics on the immune function
- The Stressor-Support-Coping model, which integrates existing psychoneuroimmunology findings and lays the groundwork for use in support group intervention
This book is a first step toward organizing psychoneuroimmunology findings into coherent theoretical models and concludes with a look at future clinical applications. Complete with charts, references, and a detailed index, it is the most comprehensive source on psychoneuroimmunology.
Author(s): Karl Goodkin, Adriaan Philip Visser
Series: Progress in Psychiatry
Edition: 1st
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Year: 2000
Language: English
Commentary: 74053
Pages: 470
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction to the Progress in Psychiatry Series......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
1 Stress, Depression, Immunity, and Health......Page 26
2 Behavioral States and Immune Responsiveness......Page 52
3 Cervical Cancer: Psychosocial and Psychoneuroimmunologic Issues......Page 66
4 Neoadjuvant Immunostimulation in Oncologic Surgery......Page 102
5 Psychoneuroimmune and Endocrine Effects on Cancer Progression......Page 130
6 Longitudinal Psychoneuroimmunologic Relationships in the Natural History of HIV-1 Infection: The Stressor-Support-Coping Model......Page 178
7 Cognitive Function in HIV-1 Infection......Page 220
8 Immune Function, Brain, and HIV-1 Infection......Page 268
9 Stress Management and Psychosocial Predictors of Disease Course in HIV-1 Infection......Page 342
10 Bereavement, Immunity, and the Impact of Bereavement Support Groups in HIV-1 Infection......Page 382
11 Psychoneuroimmunology: Perspectives of an Immunologist......Page 420
A......Page 432
B......Page 434
C......Page 437
D......Page 444
E......Page 445
G......Page 446
H......Page 447
I......Page 451
K......Page 454
L......Page 455
M......Page 456
N......Page 458
P......Page 460
S......Page 464
T......Page 468
Z......Page 469
