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Mind-body interactions have been the subject of debate for many generations. However, it is only in recent years that these interactions have become the subject of rigorous scientific enquiry. Advances in our understanding of the stress process, the endocrine and immune systems and the methodologies used to investigate these phenomena have resulted in an explosion of research activity in the field known as Psychoneuroimmunology. This book presents an up to date account of the human evidence in this field. The first three chapters introduce the reader to the biological systems at the heart of mind/body interactions and the methods used to investigate them. Thereafter, each chapter deals with a separate clinical entity; examining the theoretical basis for mind/body interactions; the associated empirical evidence and directions for future research. With each chapter written by international experts in the field, it provides the reader with an up to date account of the research evidence in the new and rapidly evolving field of psychoneuroimmunology.

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Dr Kavita Vedhara is an MRC Career Track Scientist. She is on the editorial board of British Journal of Health Psychology, Psychology and Health and Brain, Behaviour and Immunity M. Irwin: Associate Editor of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (official journal of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society) Editorial Board, Psychosomatic Medicine Advisory Council, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health Past-President, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research Past President, Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society Norman Cousins Professor at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

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