Stress and health: A review of psychobiological processes

DB O'Connor, JF Thayer… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The cumulative science linking stress to negative health outcomes is vast. Stress can affect
health directly, through autonomic and neuroendocrine responses, but also indirectly …

Factors that influence the immune response to vaccination

P Zimmermann, N Curtis - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2019 - journals.asm.org
There is substantial variation between individuals in the immune response to vaccination. In
this review, we provide an overview of the plethora of studies that have investigated factors …

Psychological and behavioral predictors of vaccine efficacy: considerations for COVID-19

AA Madison, MR Shrout, ME Renna… - Perspectives on …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine candidates are
being evaluated, with the goal of conferring immunity on the highest percentage of people …

Family caregivers of people with dementia

H Brodaty, M Donkin - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Family caregivers of people with dementia, often called the invisible second patients, are
critical to the quality of life of the care recipients. The effects of being a family caregiver …

Psychological stress and the human immune system: a meta-analytic study of 30 years of inquiry.

SC Segerstrom, GE Miller - Psychological bulletin, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
The present report meta-analyzes more than 300 empirical articles describing a relationship
between psychological stress and parameters of the immune system in human participants …

A systematic review of the psychobiological burden of informal caregiving for patients with dementia: Focus on cognitive and biological markers of chronic stress

AP Allen, EA Curran, Á Duggan, JF Cryan… - Neuroscience & …, 2017 - Elsevier
As the physiological impact of chronic stress is difficult to study in humans, naturalistic
stressors are invaluable sources of information in this area. This review systematically …

Marriage and health: his and hers.

JK Kiecolt-Glaser, TL Newton - Psychological bulletin, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
This review focuses on the pathway leading from the marital relationship to physical health.
Evidence from 64 articles published in the past decade, particularly marital interaction …

If it goes up, must it come down? Chronic stress and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in humans.

GE Miller, E Chen, ES Zhou - Psychological bulletin, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
The notion that chronic stress fosters disease by activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-
adrenocortical (HPA) axis is featured prominently in many theories. The research linking …

Stress-induced immune dysfunction: implications for health

R Glaser, JK Kiecolt-Glaser - Nature reviews immunology, 2005 - nature.com
Folk wisdom has long suggested that stressful events take a toll on health. The field of
psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is now providing key mechanistic evidence about the ways …

Is caregiving hazardous to one's physical health? A meta-analysis.

PP Vitaliano, J Zhang, JM Scanlan - Psychological bulletin, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Caring for a family member with dementia is generally regarded as a chronically stressful
process, with potentially negative physical health consequences. However, no quantitative …