Psychoneuroimmunology.

FOCUS Feb-97 Physical & Nervous Affects (HIV/AIDS)

What is psychoneuroimmunology? What research exists supporting psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) as an approach to treating people with HIV disease? Is the scientific community ready and able to develop and implement PNI-based clinical protocols as immune-boosting treatment for people with HIV disease? This article looks at these questions and concludes that, after years of research, psychoneuroimmun...

Twenty years of psychoneuroimmunology and viral infections in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

For 20 years, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity has provided an important venue for the publication of studies in psychoneuroimmunology. During this time period, psychoneuroimmunology has matured into an important multidisciplinary science that has contributed significantly to our knowledge of mind, brain, and body interactions. This review will not only focus on the primary research papers dealing...

The "stress analogy" in the context of psychoneuroimmunology.

The "stress analogy" is examined from the perspective of psychoneuroimmunology. Arguments are presented that do not support a linear and mathematical conception of psychosocial stress, as defended by the "stress analogy" concept. Implications for the study of schizophrenia are discussed.

Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychoneuroimmunology and Psychedelics

Psychoneuroimmunology: an interpretation of experimental and case study evidence towards a paradigm for predictable results.

This paper surveys a number of key experiments and case studies relating to psychoneuroimmunology. It finds that most techniques to influence or even direct the immune system via the mind fall into a series of theoretical categories called passive, active and targeted effects. By examining the results of experiments and studies in the light of these categories a number of important conclusions ...

Selections from current literature. Psychoneuroimmunology: validation of the biopsychosocial model.