Psychological Influences on Surgical Recovery: Perspectives from Psychoneuroimmunology

American Psychologist

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1209-1218

  Kiecolt Glaser, Janice K ^a   Page, Gayle G ^b   Marucha, Phillip T ^b   MacCallum, Robert C ^b   Glaser, Ronald ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SURGERY; WOUND HEALING;

HUMANS; PAIN; PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURGERY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032215459     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.53.11.1209     Document Type: Article

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