The notion that stress and cancer are interlinked has dominated lay discourse for decades.
More recent animal studies indicate that stress can substantially facilitate cancer …

Exercise has a profound effect on the normal functioning of the immune system. It is
generally accepted that prolonged periods of intensive exercise training can depress …

The present report meta-analyzes more than 300 empirical articles describing a relationship
between psychological stress and parameters of the immune system in human participants …

Folk wisdom has long suggested that stressful events take a toll on health. The field of
psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is now providing key mechanistic evidence about the ways …

Latent viral reactivation is a commonly reported manifestation of immune system
dysregulation during spaceflight. As physical fitness and exercise training have been shown …

Over the past 20 years we have demonstrated both in animal models and in human studies
that stress increases neuroendocrine hormones, particularly glucocorticoids and …

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous human virus which infects almost all humans during
their lifetime and following the acute phase, persists for the remainder of the life of the …

Stress is a state of disrupted homeostasis, triggered by intrinsic or extrinsic factors, the
stressors, which are counteracted by various physiological and behavioural adaptive …

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 …

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