Dispositional optimism and stress-induced changes in immunity and negative mood
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Dispositional optimism and stress-induced changes in immunity and negative mood
Evidence suggests that optimism may be protective for health during times of heightened stress, yet the mechanisms involved remain unclear. In a double-blind placebo-controlled study, we recently showed that acute psychological stress and an immune stimulus (Typhim-Vi typhoid vaccine) synergistically increased serum levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and negative mood in 59 healthy men. Here we car...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0889-1591
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2009.02.018