During the past 10-15 years, psychoneuroimmunology--the study of the interactions among
behavior, neural and endocrine function, and immune processes--has developed into a …

This article examines the complex role of early stressful experiences in producing both
vulnerability and resilience to later stress-related psychopathology in a variety of primate …

Studies on environmental consequences of stress on animal production have grown
substantially in the last few years for economic and animal welfare reasons. Physiological …

Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in
the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future …

The current focus on identifying genes which predispose to psychiatric illness sharpens the
need to identify environmental factors which interact with genetic predisposition and thus …

When Kardiner first described the full syndrome of what is now called PTSD in 1941, he
called the trauma response a “physioneurosis,” that is, a mental disorder which affects both …

Objective The objective of the study was to assess the roles of social stress and social status
in susceptibility to upper respiratory infection. Method: Sixty male cynomolgus monkeys …

Recent studies have focused on the behavioral and neurobiological sequella of exposure to
early adverse events. We hypothesize that early adverse experiences result in an increased …

• We assessed the effect of parental loss during childhood on the development of
psychopathology in 90 adults. The subjects with a history of adult psychopathology (PATH …

Recent evidence suggests that there is a relationship between depression and immunity. On
the basis of these studies, it has been argued that depressed mood may increase …