History and main research of psychoneuroimmunology in China

Weiwen Wang; Wenjuan Lin; Gang Chen; Zili You

doi:10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100562

History and main research of psychoneuroimmunology in China

Brain Behav Immun Health. 2022 Nov 28:26:100562. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100562. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Authors

Weiwen Wang^{1

2}, Wenjuan Lin^{1

2}, Gang Chen³, Zili You⁴

Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, 100101, China.
² Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ Interdisciplinary Institute for Personalized Medicine in Brain Disorders, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China.
⁴ School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China.

Abstract

The concept of mind-body integration was born in China with a long history and is naturally compatible with the psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). Since PNI was introduced into China in the 1990s, increasingly Chinese researchers from different fields were attracted to the psychoneuroimmunology research of health and disease. This review includes two parts: in the first part, we summarize a brief history of the development of PNI in China from 1992 to 2012, which mainly happened before the establishment of PNIRS_China in 2013. In the second part, some representative studies in the different fields of PNI conducted in China are reviewed, mainly including conditioned immunity, emotional stress and immunity, and inflammation and depression.

Keywords: China; Conditioned immunity; History; Inflammation and depression; PNI; Psychoneuroimmunology; Stress.