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Kiecolt-Glaser Offers New Paradigm on How Stress Kills |
| By Belle Waring |
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Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser |
The idea that the mind affects health and illness is thousands of years old, but only in recent decades have scientists tracked down the data.
Now Ohio State University’s Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser is adding to the growing evidence on the health consequences
of stress. In her talk “How Stress Kills: New Perspectives
on Stress and Inflammation,” she offered recent findings to a packed house in Lipsett Amphitheater.
“She has done seminal work in a field with a long name,” said NIDCR’s Dr. Nadya Lumelsky in her introduction.
That field is psychoneuroimmunology, the interdisciplinary
study of brain, mind and immune system. “There was lots of anecdotal evidence, but Dr. Kiecolt-Glaser has shown a causal relationship between stress and other diseases.”
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