心理神经免疫学研究

心理神经免疫学（Psychoneuroimmunology）是一门探索人类心身健康奥秘的新型边缘学科。它研究神经系统如何将心理因素转换为可以影响健康的生理状态的机制，特别是脑和行为如何影响免疫系统，又如何受到免疫系统的影响的。免疫系统和神经系统之间是否真正存在联系一直有争论，我们实验室围绕高级神经活动对免疫系统的作用开展了研究。工作包括：条件反射性免疫抑制和增强、情绪应激与免疫、心理行为干预与癌症等。这些工作不仅证实了心理调控，比如信号刺激、情绪和意念想象等，确实可以影响免疫系统的功能，而且对有关机制进行了探讨

Research on Psychoneuroimmunology

An interdisciplinary research field of Psychoneuroimmunology focuses on the research of the interactions among the behavior, the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the immune system. It emphasizes that psychological or behavioral factors can influence immune function and therefore influence health and susceptibility to disease. However, the evidence for direct links between psychological processes and immune function is unconvincing. This review is concerned with the examination of the role of psycho-behavioral factors in the modulation of immune function and the related mechanisms. In contrast to review the evidence or data published in extensive literature, this review is only an attempt to cover the studies conducted in our own laboratory. These studies include conditioned immunity of both suppression and enhancement, effect of emotional stress, and psychological intervention in cancer patients. Evidence from the three lines of experimental data suggests that psychological processes, such as associative learning, emotion, and behavioral imagination do influence the immune function. The related mechanisms are also discussed.