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Key Initiatives: Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Behavioral and Psychological Influences on Cancer



CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue on Cancer
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Basic Biobehavioral and Psychological Sciences Branch

The special issue on cancer in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity will be published in February 2013 and will commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Brain, Behavior, and Immunity supplement, "Biological Mechanisms of Psychosocial Effects on Disease: Implications for Cancer Control," a landmark volume on biobehavioral mechanisms of behavioral and psychological influences on cancer.

Specific areas of research will include:

  • Biobehavioral influences on inflammation and implications for cancer
  • Psychological/social influences on immunity and implications for cancer
  • Central and peripheral nervous system regulation of the tumor microenvironment
  • PNI mechanisms of cancer risk, symptoms, and survivorship
  • Biobehavioral mechanisms and outcomes associated with interventions and exposure to
    cancer therapies
  • Biobehavioral perspectives on circadian regulation of cancer
  • Biobehavioral interactions that underlie cancer and other diseases
  • Psychological/social regulation of peripheral blood and tumor gene expression
  • Sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation of tumor viruses

For more information, contact: BBICancer2013@mail.nih.gov

Special Issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volume 17, Issue 1 Exit Disclaimer, 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 Exit Disclaimer, Pages 1-4
    Michael Stefanek and Paige Green McDonald
  2. Catecholamines, sympathetic innervation, and immunity Exit Disclaimer, Pages 5-10
    Kelley S. Madden
  3. Mechanisms of stress-induced modulation of immunity Exit Disclaimer, Pages 11-16
    Jan A. Moynihan
  4. The HPA Axis, SNS, and Immunity: A Commentary Exit Disclaimer, Page 17
    John Sheridan
  5. Stressed to death: Implication of lymphocyte apoptosis for psychoneuroimmunology Exit Disclaimer, 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 Exit Disclaimer, Pages 27-36
    Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu
  7. Stress-induced immunomodulation: Implications for tumorigenesis Exit Disclaimer, Pages 37-40
    Eric V. Yang and Ronald Glaser
  8. Sleep in host defense Exit Disclaimer, Pages 41-47
    James M. Krueger, Jeannine A. Majde and Ferenc Obál, Jr.
  9. Circadian disruption and cancer: Sleep and immune regulation Exit Disclaimer, Pages 48-50
    Dana H. Bovbjerg
  10. Conditioned immunomodulation: Research needs and directions Exit Disclaimer, Pages 51-57
    Robert Ader
  11. Conditioning, cancer, and immune regulation Exit Disclaimer, Pages 58-61
    Dana H. Bovbjerg
  12. An interdisciplinary research model to investigate psychosocial cofactors in disease: Application to HIV-1 pathogenesis Exit Disclaimer, Pages 62-72
    Margaret E. Kemeny
  13. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal alterations in PTSD: Are they relevant to understanding cortisol alterations in cancer? Exit Disclaimer, Pages 73-83
    Rachel Yehuda
  14. Psychoneuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology of cancer: Plausible mechanisms worth pursuing? Exit Disclaimer, Pages 84-91
    Michael H. Antoni
  15. Individual differences, immunity, and cancer: Lessons from personality psychology Exit Disclaimer, 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 Exit Disclaimer, Pages 106-108
    Susan K. Lutgendorf
  18. Examining psychosocial factors related to cancer incidence and progression: In search of the silver lining Exit Disclaimer, Pages 109-111
    Kathi L. Heffner, Timothy J. Loving, Theodore F. Robles and Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
  19. Cytokine-induced sickness behavior Exit Disclaimer, 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 Exit Disclaimer, 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 treatmentExit Disclaimer, Pages 125-131
    Steven F. Maier and Linda R. Watkins
  22. Cytokines and sickness behavior: Implications for cancer care and control Exit Disclaimer, Pages 132-134
    Andrew H. Miller
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