Psychoneuroimmunology goes East: Development of the PNIRS  affiliate and its expansion into PNIRS

Kelley, Keith W.; Peng, Yu‐Ping; Liu, Quentin; Chang, Hui-Chih; Spencer, Sarah J.; Hutchinson, Mark R.; Shimada, Atsuyoshi

doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2020.04.026

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“…As highlighted by our PNI leaders ( Kelley et al., 2020 ), there are advantages to harvest from the more holistic health perspective of the East. I opine that rigorous and advanced scientific methods that are standard in the West should be implemented to test relevant hypotheses that the diverse but rich wisdom traditions have to offer - be it in the form of mindful awareness, different forms of exercise or dietary practices.…”

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Psychoneuroimmunology: The new frontier in suicide research

Neupane

2021

Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health

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Elucidating complex, multifactorial phenomena like suicide and suicidal behaviors (SSB) require multidisciplinary fields such as Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). Indeed, our appreciation of the bidirectional communication channels between the brain and the rest of the body with its immune arsenal as the key player has positioned PNI as a promising field of research. We now know that major psychiatric, behavioral, and somatic disorders related to SSB accompany neuroimmune dysregulation. These disorders range from depression, emotional dysregulation, atopy, and epilepsy to certain viral and parasitic infections. By utilizing epidemiological, genetic, microbial, and molecular approaches, the PNI research community has excogitated novel biomarker candidates and pathways in support of SSB risk stratification at individual level. This remarkable progress in just two previous decades shall, if successful, help implement personalized prevention and treatment strategies, using PNI-assisted tools. The aims of this narrative review and opinion piece are to summarize important discoveries concerning the role of neuroimmune activation in SSB and to highlight important future directions for the field. Major caveats of the findings concerning methodological approaches, clinical reality of frequent comorbid psychopathology, and novel molecular targets are presented. Finally, this review calls on the PNI research community for increased attention towards factors that promote resilience to suicide, while accepting “consciousness” under its wing. Thus, PNI represents the new frontier in suicide research. Future breakthroughs in this discipline shall bring us closer to understanding the biological substrates of qualia i.e., subjective, and experiential meanings of life and death.

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Psychoneuroimmunology: The new frontier in suicide research

Neupane

2021

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“…During the past 5 years, two of the most cited original research papers published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity were from Chinese authors (awards-lectures" title=" https://www.pnirs.org/awards-lectures "> https://www.pnirs.org/ awards-lectures). Yet, other than a brief overview of PNI research in China ( Kelley et al, 2020 ), Western scientists are generally not familiar with contributions of Chinese scientists to early PNI research. Wang et al (2022) have now remedied this situation with their historical summary of PNI research published by Chinese scientists.…”

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Connecting the dots from east to west

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2022

Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health

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“…Ten years later, as a PNIRS affiliate, PNIRS China was established in 2013 by an academic forum at Dalian Medical University. Then eight years later, because of the great success of this program in promoting the science of psychoneuroimmunology in China and the whole of Asia-Oceania, PNIRS China extended into PNIRS Asia-Pacific in 2017 ( Kelley et al, 2020 ). Today, the emerging field of PNI is now universally recognized in the whole of China.…”

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“…This review attempts to outline the developmental trajectory of PNI in China with important events, and main scientific research at different stages along with parallel timelines of PNI in the world. The content of this review includes two parts: in the first part, we summarize a brief history of developments of PNI in China from 1992 to 2012, which mainly happened before the establishment of PNIRS China in 2013 ( Kelley et al, 2020 ). In the second part, some representative topic studies in the different fields of PNI conducted in China are reviewed.…”

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