Immunity, Stress, and Disease - testing the stress-disease link

7 important questions on Immunity, Stress, and Disease - testing the stress-disease link

What might explain the relationship between social isolation and disease?

People are more stressed for lack of social outlets and support --> this leads to chronic actiocation of stress-responses --> leading to immune suppression --> and more infectious diseases

What is the psychoneuroimmune route for getting a cold while being stressed in studies?

External events that most people would consider stressful --> few looked at the magnitude of the stress response --> changes in relevant immune measures have been documented, also these people have less antibodies in their saliva and nasal passageways

Same amount of HIV in your system, a faster decline and higher mortality rate occur, among people who have;

a) a coping style built around detail
b) minimal social support
c) a socially inhibited temperament
d) more stressors particularly loss of loved ones
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What are latent viruses?

Virus that goes latent after infecting your. It goes into hibernation and when somethings triggers the dormant virus out of latency and it reactivates.

When do latent viruses go out of hibernation?

When the immune system is lousy, and when is our immune system lousy --> when physical or psychological stress

Why is there no link between cancer and stress?

A) stress never suppresses the immune system to that extent
b) even when the immune system is suppressed only a small subset of organ transplant or AIDS patient get cancer
c) only a tiny subset of cancers that now become more common

Which personality is linked to be cancer-prone?

Repression- emotions held inside, particularly anger- conforming an compliant.

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