Probiotics are beneficial active microorganisms that colonize the human intestines and
change the composition of the flora in particular parts of the host. Recently, the use of …

The discovery of reciprocal connections between the central nervous system, sleep and the
immune system has shown that sleep enhances immune defences and that afferent signals …

Anxiety and fear adversely affect the physiological systems that protect individuals from
infection. This article comments on the role that religious faith and practice can play in …

Sleep disturbances including insomnia independently contribute to risk of inflammatory
disorders and major depressive disorder. This review and overview provides an integrated …

Humans consider themselves discrete autonomous organisms, but recent research is
rapidly strengthening the appreciation that associated microorganisms make essential …

Molecules involved in innate immunity affect sleep and circadian oscillators and vice versa.
Sleep-inducing inflammatory molecules are activated by increased waking activity and …

Sleep has an important role in maintaining health and wellbeing; this relationship is
becoming increasingly recognised for adolescents and young adults. Many physicians will …

Welcome to Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice (Seventh Edition). This
textbook provides an in-depth introduction to the growing field of health psychology. It is …

Sleep has a homeostatic role in the regulation of the immune system and serves to constrain
activation of inflammatory signalling and expression of cellular inflammation. In patients with …

Sleep remains a major mystery of biology. In particular, little is known about the mechanisms
that account for the drive to sleep. In an unbiased screen of more than 12,000 Drosophila …