Integrated neuroimmune processing of threat, injury, and illness: An ecological framework mapping social alienation onto lifetime health vulnerability

Social alienation is a pre-eminent ecological threat for humans.In clinical and social care settings its impact is acknowledged in conditions as diverse as severe mood disturbance, chronic pain, and metabolic non-communicable diseases.An integrated psychoneuroimmune perspective shows how threat, injury, healing, and recovery follow through as a con

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Case studies in physiology: Nocturnal cardiorespiratory adaptive differences between an Italian trekker and a Nepali guide

Abstract The cardiopulmonary system is a physiological cornerstone in the adaptive response to hypobaric hypoxia.Portable Topical Cream devices make it feasible nowadays to precisely assess the response to high altitude (HA) expeditions.In this study, we investigated breathing and arterial blood pressure responses during a Himalayan trek from 665 m

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Monstrous animal siblings in Europe

Reports of women giving birth to a baby together with an animal (toad, CONSOLE TABLES mouse, bird, etc.), are documented in Europe from the 1100s onwards: the most important traditions of which are the frater Salernitanorum and the sooterkin.Throughout the centuries, authors have typically attempted to explain monstrous animal siblings in the light

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