The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses
I've heard it phrased "Stress wrecks the body in strange ways." It is one of the best aphorisms I've been given. A physiologist friend told me this years ago when I was remarking how it seems like psychological stress seems to cause every subsystem of the body to freak out, yet there's no obvious connection between these things - why should the brain, which is evolutionarily "late", affect such deep subsystems?<p>This paper offers a clue into just such a connection. Immuno-psychiatry might be the next big thing.