Abstract Background Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) indicators, with the central role in low-grade systemic inflammation, are associated major psychiatric disorders and late effects post-cancer treatment. Immune disturbances might mediate of environmental determinants on behaviour mental disorders. Therefore, our primary objective is to evaluate whether exposure household attributes can trigger PNI...

Introduction Psychoneuroimmunology is a discipline that has emerged over the past decades as broad interdisciplinary field closely observes relationship between psychological state, nervous system, endocrine and immune system. The natural aging process leads to alterations in functions, involving lymphocyte dysregulation, therefore leading higher risk of developing coronary artery diseases, inf...

During maternal separation, some primate and nonprimate species show a biphasic (active/passive) response. The second stage is characterized by reduced activity, a hunched body posture, and other behaviors. Traditionally, the second stage has been referred to as "despair" and is considered an animal model for human depression. Recent research in psychoneuroimmunology suggests an alternative hyp...