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Medicine, Traditional/history , Medicine, Traditional/methods , Medicine, Traditional/trends , Central America , Ethnopharmacology/history , Ethnopharmacology/methods , Ethnopharmacology/trends , History, Ancient , Humans , Mexico , Phytotherapy/history , Phytotherapy/trends , Psychoneuroimmunology/methods , South AmericaABSTRACT
Psychoneuroimmunology-based interventions are used to attenuated disease progression and/or side effects of pharmacological treatment. This systematic review evaluates the different therapeutic and/or clinical psychoneuroimmunology-based interventions associated to both psychological, neuroendocrine and immunological variables. The review was conducted for all English, Portuguese and Spanish language articles published between 2005 and 2015. Independent investigators analyzed 42 studies concerning human psychoneuroimmunology-based interventions. Decreased levels of cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine (stress-related hormones) were associated to interventions like yoga, meditation, tai chi, acupuncture, mindfulness, religious/spiritual practices, cognitive behavior therapy, coping and physical exercises. Moreover, those interventions were also associated to reductions in inflammatory processes and levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in cancer, HIV, depression, anxiety, wound healing, sleep disorder, cardiovascular diseases and fibromyalgia. Despite the associations between PNI variables and clinical/therapeutic interventions, only one study evidenced significant effects on a disease progression.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/methods , Exercise Therapy/methods , Inflammation/therapy , Mind-Body Therapies/methods , Outcome Assessment, Health Care , Psychoneuroimmunology/methods , Stress, Psychological/therapy , HumansABSTRACT
Se presenta la aplicacion de la Psiconeuroinmunologia a todas las especialidades como coadyuvante al tratamiento medico convencional como ayuda para potencializar al maximo la posivilidad de curacion.
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Humans , Male , Female , Allergy and Immunology/classification , Medical Oncology/methods , Psychoneuroimmunology/methods , Psychology , PsychotherapyABSTRACT
This review analyzes recent publications on the topic of psycho-immune-neuroendocrine integrative mechanisms. Results on the role of cytokines in cognitive processes and in a major neuroendocrine event, i.e. the release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone, are discussed, as are the effects of cytokines on central neurotransmission. The control of immune responses by local sympathetic nerves, a major pathway in neuroimmune communication, is discussed. This review also updates information indicating that melatonin is a circulating signal affecting the periodic organization of the immune response.
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Cognition/physiology , Cytokines/physiology , Neurosecretory Systems/physiology , Animals , Antibody Formation/physiology , Humans , Psychoneuroimmunology/methods , Sympathetic Nervous System/physiologyABSTRACT
La Psiconeuroinmunologia (PNI) es un campo que estudia las relaciones bidireccionales entre la conducta, el cerebro y el sistema inmune. Desde los estudios iniciales de inmunodepresión e inmunoactivación condicionada realizada en animales se han llevado acabo una gran cantidad de estudios en humanos, intentando verificar hasta que punto el sistema inmune esta sujeto a las influencias psicosociales. El presente artículo revisa algunos avances en esta área centrándose exclusivamente en participantes humanos. Se comienza con las definiciones que fundamentan el área, se describen los elementos y funcionamiento del sistema inmune asi como tambien las formas de medirlo. Se continua con las descripciones de los estudios en áreas como: situaciones sociales, ansiedad y estres, depresion, procesos cognitivos, cancer y sida. Por último es necesario destacar que la mayoría de la literatura se ha centrando en investigadores de habla inglesa, sin embargo, ya se conocen interesantes trabajos de investigadores iberoamericanos de paises como Brasil, Chile, España, México, etc.