The psychoneuroimmunology of chronic disease
Subtitle: exploring the links between inflammation, stress, and illness
By: edited by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett.
Contributors: Kendall-Tackett, Kathleen A.; American Psychological Association.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433804762
Subjects: Chronic diseases -- Etiology; Psychoneuroendocrinology; Medicine, Psychosomatic; Chronic Disease -- psychology; Inflammation -- immunology; Nervous System Diseases -- immunology; Psychoneuroimmunology -- methods; Stress, Psychological -- immunology; Stress, Psychological -- psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of stress, immunity, and risk of disease / Maureen Groër, Mary Meagher & Kathleen Kendall-Tackett; title: Inflammation, fatty acid oxidation, and neurodegenerative disease / Mary Nivison, Angela L. Guillozet-Bongaarts, and Thomas J. Montine; title: Sleep and inflammation : a potential link to chronic diseases / Edward C. Suarez and Harold Goforth; title: Polyunsaturated fatty acids, inflammation, and inflammatory diseases / Philip C. Calder; title: Depression, hostility, posttraumatic stress disorder, and inflammation : the corrosive health effects of negative mental states / Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett; title: Cognitive and behavioral reactions to stress among adults with PTSD : implications for immunity and health / Jeffrey L. Kibler, Kavita Joshi, and Erin E. Hughes; title: Social stress and inflammation in the exacerbation of multiple sclerosis : an animal model with implications for humans / Mary W. Meagher and C. Jane R. Welsh; title: Allostasis : a model for women's health / Maureen Groër and the Women's Health Group; title: Treatments for depression that lower inflammation : additional support for an inflammatory etiology of depression / Kathleen Kendall-Tackett; title: Inflammation and chronic disease : clinical implications and future directions / Kathleen Kendall-Tackett.