Behavioral researchers have increasingly become interested in the idea that chronic, low-
grade inflammation is a pathway through which social and behavioral variables exert long …

Classic theories of stress and health are largely based on assumptions regarding how
different psychosocial stressors influence biological processes that, in turn, affect human …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

The COVID-19 pandemic has ignited interest in age-specific manifestations of infection but
surprisingly little is known about relative severity of infectious disease between the extremes …

The acute effects of exercise on metabolic energy expenditure and inflammation are well
studied, but the long-term effects of regular daily physical activity on metabolic and …

Mother's milk immunoglobulins (Igs) delivered to infants during breastfeeding are crucial in
sha** and modulating immature infants' immune system and provide efficient protection …

Immune function is an energetically costly physiological activity that potentially diverts
calories away from less immediately essential life tasks. Among develo** organisms, the …

Chronic inflammation contributes to the onset and progression of cardiovascular disease
and other degenerative diseases of aging. But does it have to? This article considers the …

Abstract Old World fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) provide critical pollination and seed
dispersal services to forest ecosystems across Africa, Asia, and Australia. In each of these …