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What's in a Name? Neuroimmunomodulation or Psychoneuroimmunology?
Author(s) -
GREER STEVEN
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb05422.x
Subject(s) - psychoneuroimmunology , psychology , immune system , function (biology) , affect (linguistics) , immunology , medicine , communication , biology , evolutionary biology
A bstract : Compelling evidence is presented to support the hypothesis that psychological processes affect immune function. Consequently, it is argued that psychological processes should be included in human immunological studies and that neuroimmunomodulation could accurately by called psychoneuroimmunology.