Introduction | |
The Brain as a Health Maintenance Organization | |
How the Brain Grows in Response to Experience | |
Psycho-Social Factors in Healing: | |
The Contributions of the Social Environment to Host Resistance | |
Medical Pluralism | |
Mind-Made Health: The Placebo Effect and the Intrinsic Healing Systems of the Body | |
The Broken Heart: The Psychobiology of Human Contact | |
People Need People: Social Support and Health | |
Environmental Influences: | |
Air Ions and Brain Chemistry | |
Ways that Foods can Affect the Brain | |
Behavior and Nutrition: Strategies Used in Studies of Amino Acids, Protein, Carbohydrate and Caffeine | |
Psychoneuroimmunology: | |
Self-Healing: A Personal History | |
The Wisdom of the Receptors: Neuropeptides, the Emotions, and Bodymind | |
Possible Mechanisms of Psychoneuroimmunological Interaction | |
Emotions, Stress, and Immunity | |
The Emerging Field of Psycho-neuroimmunology, with a Special Note on AIDS | |
The Brain'S Regulation Of The Body: | |
Desirable Weight and Longevity: Status of the Controversy | |
Coping With Stress: | |
Stress Resistant Personality | |
The Salutogenic Model of Health | |
Type A Behavior | |
Conclusion: | |
Where Do We Go From Here? | |
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