Psychoneuroimmunology: synopsis of its history, classes of evidence and their implications

DefinitionPsychoneuroimmunology is the transdisciplinary scientific field concerned with interactions between brain (mind/behavior) and the immune system and their clinical implications (1). The field is usually referred to as psychoneuroimmunology or "PNI". The psychologist Robert Ader coined the term in the late 1970's, but it is also known by the equally ponderous terms neuroimmuno...