Associations among central nervous, endocrine, and immune activities when positive emotions are elicited by looking at a favorite person

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 408-417

  Matsunaga, Masahiro ^a,b   Isowa, Tokiko ^c   Kimura, Kenta ^a   Miyakoshi, Makoto ^a   Kanayama, Noriaki ^a   Murakami, Hiroki ^a   Sato, Sayaka ^b   Konagaya, Toshihiro ^b   Nogimori, Tsuyoshi ^d   Fukuyama, Seisuke ^e,f   Shinoda, Jun ^e   Yamada, Jitsuhiro ^e   Ohira, Hideki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c MIE PREFECTURAL COLLEGE OF NURSING   (Japan)

^d Aichi Prefectural Welfare Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives   (Japan)

^e Kizawa Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^f KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Natural killer cell activity; Positive emotion; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOPAMINE; EMOTIONS; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 38649099734     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2007.09.008     Document Type: Article

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