Stress-induced immune dysregulation results in significant health consequences for immune
related disorders including viral infections, chronic autoimmune disease, and tumor growth …

Stress is an integral part of life. While acute responses to stress are generally regarded as
beneficial in dealing with immediate threats, chronic exposure to threatening stimuli exerts …

Advances in the understanding of psychoneuroimmunology in the past decade have
emphasized the notion that stress and cancer are interlinked closely. Durable chronic stress …

Psychological stress is a well-accepted risk factor in cancer initiation and progression. The
explosive growth of psychoneuroimmunology research in the past decade has yielded an …

For many years, anecdotal evidence and clinical observations have suggested that
exposure to psychosocial stress can affect disease outcomes in immune-related disorders …

Epidemiologic evidence increasingly has supported the role of biobehavioral risk factors
such as social adversity, depression, and stress in cancer progression. This review …

The range of psychosocial stress factors/processes (eg, chronic stress, distress states,
coping, social adversity) were reviewed as they relate to immune variables in cancer along …

The communication between the central nervous system and the immune system occurs via
a complex network of bidirectional signals linking the nervous, endocrine and immune …

The persistent activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the sympathetic-
adrenal-medullary axes in chronic stress response and in depression impairs the immune …

Research over the past three to four decades has clearly established that psychological
stress affects clinically relevant immune system outcomes, including inflammatory …