title: Norman Cousins Lecture. The uses and abuses of psychoneuroimmunology: a global overview.
abstract: Studies of interactions between the nervous and immune systems that effect immunological and behavioral changes are relevant to our understanding biological issues pertinent to evolution, ethology, ecology, and aging, in addition to our understanding the immune and nervous systems per se. Psychoneuroimmunology also relates to homeland security, science education, and the practice of conventional as well as complementary and alternative medicine. This paper will highlight just some of these global implications of psychoneuroimmunology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA. cohen@mail.rochester.edu
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007107:Immune System / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D015213:Neuroimmunomodulation / Q000502:physiology*; D011598:Psychoneuroimmunology / Q000639:trends*; D011781:Quackery / Q000639:trends; D051381:Rats; D012098:Reproduction / Q000276:immunology; D012107:Research Design / Q000639:trends; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000276:immunology; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000276:immunology*