Understanding Emotional Roots of Human Immune System

Abstract

Decades of research has provided evidence that various psychological factors have a huge impact over the immune system which systematically stimulate it to give positive or negative responses and can time to time show several levels of modulations. These modulations or responses may enhance or may adversely affect the immune function of an individual. This review article focuses on affects and its roots to the human immune system, supported by various studies conducted in different times. The paper also discusses all the possible pathways by which emotion can connect with the immune function and vice-versa, how stress can affect the immune response as well as how the elements of psychological factors can modulate the immune function of an individual