[Ailist] Laughing Back To Health : NPR

[Stephanie West Allen]

Excerpt:

Thus was born a new science: psychoneuroimmunology. The infelicitous  
name makes sense when you break it down: Your thoughts and feelings  
(psycho) affect the chemicals in your brain (neuro), which affect the  
hormones that fight disease or replicate viruses (immunology).


Rest here:

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Stephanie