This study aims to represent our clinical experience with several psychocutaneous disorders, such as trichotillomania, neurotic excoriation, dermatitis artefacta, and parasitic delusion. Lightening the human mind’s way of function has always been a challenge attracted medical interest through years. Psychodermatology recently received attention because different mechanisms psychoneuroimmunology...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have proven a relationship between stress and cancer progression or recurrence, and on the other hand, positive effects of psychological and social support and interventions on cancer patients quality of life. PURPOSE This review article aims to provide an overview of recent studies that dealt with effects of psychosocial interventions on health and psychological s...

After being subject to Descartes’ fallacy for the past few centuries, it has now again been recognized that the mental state has an impact on health and disease, and it is becoming increasingly more evident that DNA alone does not predict health trajectories. Psychoneuroimmunology and epigenetics are two fields of science whose research supports those ideas. Psychoneuroimmunology aims to discov...

This review focuses on human psychoneuroimmunology studies published in the past decade. Issues discussed include the routes through which psychological factors influence immune function, how a stressor's duration may influence the changes observed, individual difference variables, the ability of interventions to modulate immune function, and the health consequences of psychosocially mediated i...

The article presents a review of the scientific literature containing data on features neuropsychiatric disorders – complications from nervous system against background viral load caused by SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19. Indirect effects virus such as encephalopathy, myopathy, and critical neuropathy can be hypoxia, respiratory metabolic acidosis, dysregulation homeostasis due to organ failure, autoimmun...