Depression as sickness behavior? A test of the host defense hypothesis in a high pathogen population

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 130-139

  Stieglitz, Jonathan ^a,b   Trumble, Benjamin C ^c   Thompson, Melissa Emery ^b   Blackwell, Aaron D ^c   Kaplan, Hillard ^a,b   Gurven, Michael ^c  

^a Building S   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Evolution; Host defense; Immune activation; Sickness behavior; Tsimane

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLIVIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EGALITARIAN; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FORAGER; HORTICULTURALIST; HORTICULTURE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFECTION; MALE; PATHOGEN LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SOCIAL BELIEF; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TISSUE INJURY; TSIMANE; VERY ELDERLY; BLOOD; BOLIVIA; ETHNOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY;

BIOMARKERS; BOLIVIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84940601498     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2015.05.008     Document Type: Article

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