Article March 16, 1987 Issue

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Science 86

From Science 86, April 1986

"... That the mind can influence the body's vulnerability to infection in an insidious but potent way is a perennial theme of folklore and literature. Now even scientists are beginning to take that idea seriously. An alliance of psychiatrists, immunologists, neuroscientists, and microbiologists, specialists who rarely look beyond their own disciplines, are beginning to work together in a field so new that it goes under a variety of names, including behavioral immunology, psychoimmunology, and neuroimmunomodulation.

"Just 10 years ago, most specialists in communicable disease would have scoffed at any suggestion that the mind can influence the body in this way

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