ストレス、免疫、がん : 心身医学の器質的疾患への展開(21世紀に向けての心身医学の展望-研究について)(第28回日本心身医学会総会)

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Adult and chronic diseases have been ranked as today's leading diseases. This leads us to develop a psychosomatic pathogenetic model of organic diseases, stressing the importance of psychosocial factors of patients. We tested and discussed how these factors influence organic diesases from experimental and clinical standpoints. Using animal experiments, we showed the changes of the immune system in stress state in the process beginning with stress to the development of organic diseases. We also reported a clinical case of alopecia which showed changes in the ratio of OKT4/0KT8 of T cells by emotional stress. On the other hand, we proved evidence of action of psychosocial factors upon patients before they developed the attack of leading allergic diseases such as chronic urticaria and bronchial asthma. In addition, we studied personal characteristics which were programmed to develop stress state rather easily, as for example, emotional suppression in paticular patients, such as a cancer patient. These increasing factors must be considered very important in the pathogenesis of organic diseases.
日本心身医学会の論文
1988-04-01