TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial correlates of immune status and disease progression in hiv-1 infected homosexual men
T2 - Review of preliminary findings, and commentary
AU - Mulder, Cornelis L.
AU - Antoni, Michael H.
N1 - Funding Information:
t Helen Dowling Institute for Biopsychosocial Medicine, Mathenesserlaan 183,3014 HA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. $ Department of Psychology, University of Miami, P.O.Box 248185, Coral Gables, Florida, 33124, USA. 5 Center for the Biopsychosocial Study of AIDS, University of Miami School of Medicine. All correspondence should be directed to the first author, at the address mentioned above. Supported by a grant of the Ministry of Health, The Netherlands.
PY - 1992/7/1
Y1 - 1992/7/1
N2 - Behavioral factors may have an effect on the course of infection in HIV-1 infected individuals. These effects can be mediated by the immune system of the host, which, based on psychoneuroimmunologic findings, can be affected by some psychosocial factors. We present a short review of some putative psychoneuroimmunologic pathways and their possible implications for HIV-1 infected individuals. We next summarize the findings of recent psychoimmunological work with HIV-1 seropositives and discuss the methodological problems in studying the psychoneuroimmunologic aspects of HIV-1 infection. Psychoneuroimmunologic research in HIV-1 seropositives is a rapidly developing field, yielding contradictory findings so far, but which in the long run could provide important knowledge for psychoimmunologic interventions, targeted at improving or preserving immune status and retarding disease progression, as well as optimizing psychosocial functioning.
AB - Behavioral factors may have an effect on the course of infection in HIV-1 infected individuals. These effects can be mediated by the immune system of the host, which, based on psychoneuroimmunologic findings, can be affected by some psychosocial factors. We present a short review of some putative psychoneuroimmunologic pathways and their possible implications for HIV-1 infected individuals. We next summarize the findings of recent psychoimmunological work with HIV-1 seropositives and discuss the methodological problems in studying the psychoneuroimmunologic aspects of HIV-1 infection. Psychoneuroimmunologic research in HIV-1 seropositives is a rapidly developing field, yielding contradictory findings so far, but which in the long run could provide important knowledge for psychoimmunologic interventions, targeted at improving or preserving immune status and retarding disease progression, as well as optimizing psychosocial functioning.
KW - Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
KW - pathogenesis of HIV-1 infection
KW - psychoneuroimmunology
KW - seropositive
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U2 - 10.1080/08870449208403182
DO - 10.1080/08870449208403182
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84973066716
VL - 6
SP - 175
EP - 192
JO - Psychology and Health
JF - Psychology and Health
SN - 0887-0446
IS - 3
ER -