Special Issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volume 17, Issue 1, Supplement 1 Pages 1-134, (15 February 2003)
Biological Mechanisms of Psychosocial Effects on Disease: Implications for Cancer Control
Edited by Andrew H. Miller

We are pleased to announce the publication of a supplemental special issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity entitled "Biological Mechanisms of Psychosocial Effects on Disease: Implications for Cancer Control." This special issue is a product of the Biological Mechanisms of Psychosocial Effects on Disease (BiMPED) initiative sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and led by the Basic Biobehavioral Research Branch (BBRB) of the Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. The BBRB, the NCI Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases, and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research provided fiscal support for this publication.

The objective of our BiMPED initiative is to evaluate the state-of-the-science in psychoneuroimmunology and related fields, and the applicability of this research to cancer control. Articles in this issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity were based on presentations from the BiMPED scientific meeting sponsored by BBRB in March 2002. The special issue also features scientific commentaries from senior and emerging leaders in cancer-related psychoneuroimmunology. These leaders offer their unique perspective on the opportunities and challenges for future research.

We are proud of this publication and hope you will enjoy reading it. We anticipate that the special issue and the BiMPED initiative will stimulate basic and applied research in psychoneuroimmunology and shape the field's contribution to the collective effort of discovery, development, and delivery in the control of cancer for all.

Contents

1. Biological mechanisms of psychosocial effects on disease: Implications for cancer control, Pages 1-4
   Michael Stefanek and Paige Green McDonald
2. Catecholamines, sympathetic innervation, and immunity, Pages 5-10
   Kelley S. Madden
3. Mechanisms of stress-induced modulation of immunity, Pages 11-16
   Jan A. Moynihan
4. The HPA Axis, SNS, and Immunity: A Commentary, Page 17
   John Sheridan
5. Stressed to death: Implication of lymphocyte apoptosis for psychoneuroimmunology, Pages 18-26
   Yufang Shi, Satish Devadas, Kristy M. Greeneltch, Deling Yin, R. Allan Mufson and Jian-nian Zhou
6. The promotion of tumor metastasis by surgery and stress: Immunological basis and implications for psychoneuroimmunology, Pages 27-36
   Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu
7. Stress-induced immunomodulation: Implications for tumorigenesis, Pages 37-40
   Eric V. Yang and Ronald Glaser
8. Sleep in host defense, Pages 41-47
   James M. Krueger, Jeannine A. Majde and Ferenc Obál, Jr.
9. Circadian disruption and cancer: Sleep and immune regulation, Pages 48-50
   Dana H. Bovbjerg
10. Conditioned immunomodulation: Research needs and directions, Pages 51-57
    Robert Ader
11. Conditioning, cancer, and immune regulation, Pages 58-61
    Dana H. Bovbjerg
12. An interdisciplinary research model to investigate psychosocial cofactors in disease: Application to HIV-1 pathogenesis, Pages 62-72
    Margaret E. Kemeny
13. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal alterations in PTSD: Are they relevant to understanding cortisol alterations in cancer?, Pages 73-83
    Rachel Yehuda
14. Psychoneuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology of cancer: Plausible mechanisms worth pursuing?, Pages 84-91
    Michael H. Antoni
15. Individual differences, immunity, and cancer: Lessons from personality psychology, Pages 92-97
    Suzanne C. Segerstrom
16. Loneliness and pathways to disease, Pages 98-105
    Louise C. Hawkley and John T. Cacioppo
17. Individual differences and immune function: Implications for cancer, Pages 106-108
    Susan K. Lutgendorf
18. Examining psychosocial factors related to cancer incidence and progression: In search of the silver lining, Pages 109-111
    Kathi L. Heffner, Timothy J. Loving, Theodore F. Robles and Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
19. Cytokine-induced sickness behavior, Pages 112-118
    Keith W. Kelley, Rose-Marie Bluthé, Robert Dantzer, Jian-Hua Zhou, Wen-Hong Shen, Rodney W. Johnson and Suzanne R. Broussard
20. Cytokines and depression: The need for a new paradigm, Pages 119-124
    Lucile Capuron and Robert Dantzer
21. Immune-to-central nervous system communication and its role in modulating pain and cognition: Implications for cancer and cancer treatment, Pages 125-131
    Steven F. Maier and Linda R. Watkins
22. Cytokines and sickness behavior: Implications for cancer care and control, Pages 132-134
    Andrew H. Miller