Volume 143, Issue 3
November 2014
Pages 311–318
November 2014
Pages 311–318
Samuel Brod, Lorenza Rattazzi, Giuseppa Piras, Fulvio D'Acquisto
Summary
While the concept of a palpable relationship between our mental and physical well-being is certainly not new, it is only in the light of modern scientific research that we have begun to realize how deeply connected our emotional and immune states may be.
We begin this review with a series of studies demonstrating how four fundamental emotional responses: anger, anxiety, mirth and relaxation are able modulate cytokine production and cellular responses to a variety of immune stimuli.