- Oxford Library of Psychology
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- Short Contents
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Preface
- References
- Stress and Immunity in Pregnancy
- The Logic of Developmental Psychoneuroimmunology
- Well-Being, Aging, and Immunity
- Stress and Immune System Aging
- Physiological Correlates of Self-Conscious Emotions
- Positive Emotions and Immunity
- Emotional Expression and Disclosure
- Temperament/Animal Personality
- Personality and Human Immunity
- The Association Between Measures of Inflammation and Psychological Factors Associated with an Increased Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Hostility, Anger and Depressed Mood and Symptoms
- Marriage
- Social Support and Immunity
- Socioeconomic Status, Inflammation, and Immune Function
- Social Regulation of Gene Expression in the Immune System
- Comparative Psychoneuroimmunology/Ecoimmunology: Lessons from Simpler Model Systems
- Seasonal Rhythms in Psychoneuroimmunology
- Motivation
- Psychoneuroimmunology of Fatigue and Sleep Disturbance: The Role of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines
- Psychoneuroimmunology and Cancer: Biobehavioral Influences on Tumor Progression
- Regulation of Target System Sensitivity in Neuroinflammation: Role of GRK2 in Chronic Pain
- Stress Management, PNI, and Disease
- Methods, Variance, and Error in Psychoneuroimmunology Research: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Looking into the Future: Conclusion to the Oxford Handbook of Psychoneuroimmunology
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
Social factors influence health in part by altering the expression of genes in diseased tissue and immune cells. This chapter surveys the emerging field of social genomics, which has begun to identify the types of genes subject to social regulation, the biological signaling pathways mediating those effects, and the genetic polymorphisms that moderate socioenvironmental influences on human gene expression. After highlighting the implications of these dynamics for immune response and host defense, this chapter considers the evolutionary basis for the deep functional connections between social behavior and immune response.
Keywords: genetics, genomics, social factors, gene-environment interactions
Steven W. Cole, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Short Contents
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Preface
- References
- Stress and Immunity in Pregnancy
- The Logic of Developmental Psychoneuroimmunology
- Well-Being, Aging, and Immunity
- Stress and Immune System Aging
- Physiological Correlates of Self-Conscious Emotions
- Positive Emotions and Immunity
- Emotional Expression and Disclosure
- Temperament/Animal Personality
- Personality and Human Immunity
- The Association Between Measures of Inflammation and Psychological Factors Associated with an Increased Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Hostility, Anger and Depressed Mood and Symptoms
- Marriage
- Social Support and Immunity
- Socioeconomic Status, Inflammation, and Immune Function
- Social Regulation of Gene Expression in the Immune System
- Comparative Psychoneuroimmunology/Ecoimmunology: Lessons from Simpler Model Systems
- Seasonal Rhythms in Psychoneuroimmunology
- Motivation
- Psychoneuroimmunology of Fatigue and Sleep Disturbance: The Role of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines
- Psychoneuroimmunology and Cancer: Biobehavioral Influences on Tumor Progression
- Regulation of Target System Sensitivity in Neuroinflammation: Role of GRK2 in Chronic Pain
- Stress Management, PNI, and Disease
- Methods, Variance, and Error in Psychoneuroimmunology Research: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Looking into the Future: Conclusion to the Oxford Handbook of Psychoneuroimmunology
- Author Index
- Subject Index
