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Description
Health is maintained by the coordinated operation of all the biological systems that make up the individual. The Introduction to Psychoneuroimmunology, 2e, presents an overview of what has been discovered by scientists regarding how bodily systems respond to environmental challenges and intercommunicate to sustain health. The book touches on the main findings from the current literature without being overly technical and complex. The result is a comprehensive overview of psychoneuroimmunology, which avoids oversimplification, but does not overwhelm the reader.
Key Features
- Single authored for consistency of breadth and depth, with no redundancy of coverage between chapters
- Covers endocrine-immune modulation, neuro-immune modulation, and the enhancing or inhibiting processes of one or more systems on the others
- Expanded use of figures, tables, and text boxes
- Online test bank for professors
Readership
Psychologists, neuroscientists, endocrinologists, immunologists, psychiatrists, physicians and pre- and postdoctoral students in psychology, the neurosciences, microbiology and immunology, endocrinology, physiology, and pharmacology
Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
I Aim and Organization
II Historical Roots
III Immune System
IV Life-Sustaining Systems Intercommunicate
V Stress and its Impact on the Body
VI Psychosocial Stress and Disease
VII Sustaining Health
VIII Implications for Research and Healthcare
IX. Source
Chapter 2. Historical Antecedents
I Introduction
II Health
III Social Organization, Health, and Healing
IV Early Ideas about Health and Disease
V Empirical Approaches to Health
VI Science and Health
VII Concluding Comments
VIII. Sources
Chapter 3. Immune System Basics
I Introduction
II Molecular Self/Non-Self Discrimination
III Cell Types, Proteins, and Genes
IV Complement System
V Immune Cell Types and Functions
VI Inflammation
VII Human Leukocyte Antigen System
VIII Antigen Presentation
IX Natural Killer Cells
X B Lymphocytes, Antibody Structure, and Diversity
XI T Lymphocytes
XII Cytokines, Chemokines, and Cell Adhesion Molecules
XIII Lymphoid Organs and Leukocyte Traffic
XIV Immune Activation/Deactivation and Memory
XV Development of Immune Functions
XVI Measures of Immune Function
XVII Concluding Comments
XVIII. Sources
Chapter 4. Endocrine-Immune Modulation
I Introduction
II Endocrine System
III Cytokines, Hormones, and their Receptors
IV Anterior Pituitary Hormones and Immune Function
V Posterior Pituitary Hormones and Immune Function
VI Other Hormones and Immune Function
VII Thymus–Pituitary Axis and Immune Function
VIII Other Organs/Tissues and Immune Function
IX Endocrine Signaling and Energy Allocation
X Concluding Comments
XI. Sources<
Details
- No. of pages:
- 336
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © 2012
- Published:
- 24th February 2012
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780123820808
- Print ISBN:
- 9780123820495
- Print ISBN:
- 9781493301218
About the author
Jorge Daruna
Affiliations and Expertise
Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Reviews
"This is a book that certainly comes with a ‘Wow’ factor. This updated version from a first edition published in 2004 presents itself as a succession of bioessays structured as units with subunits, so chapters and titled paragraphs. However the structure disappears into the background with the softness and strength in his writing and gently helps you to relax in your seat only to be taken on a journey of discovery of none other than your ‘innerspace’. It truly reads as a novel." --Immunology News, November 2012
"After a historical overview and basic introduction to the immune system and endocrine-immune and neuroimmune interactions, the text discusses the concept of stress and how it influences the neuroendocrine and immune systems; the influence of psychosocial stress on specific diseases, including infection, allergy, cancer, and autoimmunity; the link between immune activity and psychopathology, using examples of autism and schizophrenia; factors that can lead to immune enhancement and protect against disease, such as the role of suggestion, beliefs and expectations, social involvement and emotional expression, sleep, relaxation, exercise, and diet; and implications for healthcare research and practice. This edition has been updated to incorporate new scientific developments, such as research on additional signaling pathways that modulate the impact of stress, genome wide association studies, and the role of exposure to microbes and physical aspects of the environment. Chapters on infectious diseases, allergy, cancer, and autoimmune disorders have been reorganized to introduce the pathophysiology, epidemiology, and genetics of each disorder." --Reference and Research Book News, Inc.