Historically, clinicians have suspected that both major and minor stressful events can have
health implications. Observations and case reports link severely stressful life events with a …

Stress, a psychophysiological process, acts through the immune‐neuroendocrine axis and
affects cellular processes of body and immune functions, leading to disease states including …

Purpose Psychosocial stress has been related to impaired immunity in cancer patients.
However, the extent to which these relationships exist in immune cells in the tumor …

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 …

Purpose Cross-sectional studies suggest that clinical insomnia is associated with immune
downregulation. However, there is a definite need for experimental studies on this question …

BACKGROUND: Stress management interventions reduce distress symptoms and
hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis hormones such as cortisol, which has been …

Objective: This prospective study assesses the roles of illness beliefs, emotion regulation
factors, and sociodemographic characteristics in decisions to participate in a group support …

Integrated care is arguably one of the most important developments in the delivery of health
care over the last few years. This new approach to health care, roughly defined as the …

Family caregiving of older individuals with Alzheimer's disease is becoming widespread in
the USA and around the world because of the aging of the population. As a result, family …

Eukaryotic chromosomes terminate in specialized nucleic acid-protein complexes known as
telomeres. Disruption of telomere structure by erosion of telomeric DNA or loss of telomere …