Rethinking IL-6 and CRP: Why they are more than inflammatory biomarkers, and why it matters

M Del Giudice, SW Gangestad - Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2018 - Elsevier
Behavioral researchers have increasingly become interested in the idea that chronic, low-
grade inflammation is a pathway through which social and behavioral variables exert long …

Social Safety Theory: Conceptual foundation, underlying mechanisms, and future directions

GM Slavich, LG Roos, S Mengelkoch… - Health psychology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Classic theories of stress and health are largely based on assumptions regarding how
different psychosocial stressors influence biological processes that, in turn, affect human …

The behavioural constellation of deprivation: Causes and consequences

GV Pepper, D Nettle - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017 - cambridge.org
Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

Evolutionary psychiatry: foundations, progress and challenges

RM Nesse - World Psychiatry, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

Three common assumptions about inflammation, aging, and health that are probably wrong

TW McDade - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic inflammation contributes to the onset and progression of cardiovascular disease
and other degenerative diseases of aging. But does it have to? This article considers the …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic analysis of infectious disease outcomes by age shows lowest severity in school-age children

JR Glynn, PAH Moss - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has ignited interest in age-specific manifestations of infection but
surprisingly little is known about relative severity of infectious disease between the extremes …

Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists

SS Urlacher, PT Ellison, LS Sugiyama… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Immune function is an energetically costly physiological activity that potentially diverts
calories away from less immediately essential life tasks. Among developing organisms, the …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in human milk immunoglobulin profile during prolonged lactation

M Czosnykowska-Łukacka, J Lis-Kuberka… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mother's milk immunoglobulins (Igs) delivered to infants during breastfeeding are crucial in
shaping and modulating immature infants' immune system and provide efficient protection …

Changing resource landscapes and spillover of henipaviruses

MK Kessler, DJ Becker, AJ Peel… - Annals of the New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Old World fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) provide critical pollination and seed
dispersal services to forest ecosystems across Africa, Asia, and Australia. In each of these …

Social and physical environments early in development predict DNA methylation of inflammatory genes in young adulthood

TW McDade, C Ryan, MJ Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic inflammation contributes to a wide range of human diseases, and environments in
infancy and childhood are important determinants of inflammatory phenotypes. The …