Psychooncology Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Scand J Psychol. 2009 Dec;50(6):645-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00779.x.
Since the early 1980s, the interdisciplinary field of psychoneuroimmunology has explored the complex bi-directional interactions between brain, behavior, and the immune system. Taken together, this research has expanded the limits of the questions we can ask about the organism by challenging the biomedical paradigm of the immune system as predominantly "autonomous". Psychoneuroimmunology has played a key role in establishing a biological basis for the ancient idea that the mind can play a role in health and disease. This article describes the development of psychoneuroimmunology and reviews a number of key findings concerning psychological phenomena of potential relevance to understanding brain-behavior-immune interactions, including learning, emotions, stress, and the role of sensory processes.
自 20 世纪 80 年代初以来，心理神经免疫学这一跨学科领域一直在探索大脑、行为和免疫系统之间复杂的双向相互作用。总的来说，这项研究通过挑战免疫系统主要是“自主”的生物医学范式，扩展了我们可以提出的关于生物体的问题的范围。心理神经免疫学在为古老的观念建立生物学基础方面发挥了关键作用，即心理在健康和疾病中起着重要作用。本文描述了心理神经免疫学的发展，并回顾了一些关键发现，这些发现与理解大脑-行为-免疫相互作用相关的心理现象有关，包括学习、情绪、压力以及感觉过程的作用。
