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1. Assignment: Stress and Immune Dysfunction Related to Diseases
Assignment: Stress and Immune Dysfunction Related to Diseases ON Assignment: Stress
and Immune Dysfunction Related to DiseasesWhen it comes to stress and immune system
responses, you can have too much of a good thing. It is true that the stress involved in
exercising or achieving goals can be great for your mind and body. Even the stress that
propels you to escape danger can ultimately save your life. Yet, ongoing stress is harmful to
the body. In previous weeks you explored the dangers associated with prolonged stress.
You also examined the relationships among stress, inflammation, and depression. As a
health psychology professional educating populations on the prevention and treatment of
disease, it is necessary to consider the relationships among stress, inflammation, and
depression in the context of specific chronic diseases. Assignment: Stress and Immune
Dysfunction Related to DiseasesFor this Assignment, review this week’s Learning
Resources. Select a disease for your Final Project from the following list:CancerHIVType I
DiabetesType II DiabetesFibromyalgiaGraves DiseasesAsthmaColitisRheumatoid
ArthritisCardio Vascular DiseaseThen, search the Walden Library for at least three articles
regarding the possible relationship between depression and the disease you selected as well
as the immune dysfunction or imbalance for that disease. Finally, consider how stress
influences the immunity of the disease you selected.Note: It is recommended that you
review the book chapters authored by Kendall-Tackett and the articles authored by
O’Malley, Wilson, Dantzer, Gill, and Leonard from Weeks 3 and 4 while preparing your
Assignment.The Assignment (6–8 pages, not including the title, abstract or reference
pages):Submit an APA-formatted essay that includes the following:A description of the
disease you selectedAn explanation of the possible relationship between depression and the
disease you selectedAn explanation of the immune dysfunction or imbalance for that
diseaseAn explanation of influences of stress on the immune response of the disease you
selected Part One of your Final Project assignment with specific references to all resources
used in its preparation. Use at least three articles to Part One. You are to provide a
reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this
course.READINGSAder, R. (2001). Psychoneuroimmunology. Current Directions in
Psychological Science, 10(3), 94–98.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.Bovbjerg,
D. H. (2003). Conditioning, cancer, and immune regulation. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity,
17(1), S58–S61.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.Dantzer, R. (2001). Cytokine-
induced sickness behavior: Where do we stand? Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 15(1), 7–
24.Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.Meissner, K., Bingel, U., Colloca, L., Wager,

2. T. D., Watson, A., & Flaten, M. A. (2011). The placebo effect: Advances from different
methodological approaches. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(45), 16117–16124.Copyright
2012 by The Journal of Neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for
Neuroscience. Used by permission of Society For Neuroscience via the Copyright Clearance
Center.Prasher, D. (2009). Is there evidence that environmental noise is
immunotoxic? Noise & Health, 11(44), 151–155.Retrieved from the Walden Library
databases.Stewart-Williams, S. (2004). The placebo puzzle: Putting together the
pieces. Health Psychology, 23(2), 198–206.Retrieved from the Walden Library
databases.Goebel, M. U., Trebst, A. E., Steiner, J., Xie, Y. F., Exton, M. S., Frede, S.,
…Schedlowski, M. (2002). Behavioral conditioning of immunosuppression is possible in
humans. The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology,
16(14), 1869–1873. Retrieved
from http://www.fasebj.org/content/16/14/1869.full.pdfCopyright 2002 by The FASEB
Journal. Used by permission of FEDN OF AM SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIO (FASEB)
via the Copyright Clearance Center.Optional ResourcesExton, M. S., Herklotz, J.,
Westermann, J., & Schedlowski, M. (2001). Conditioning in the rat: An in vivo model to
investigate the molecular mechanisms and clinical implications of brain-immune
communication. Immunological Reviews, 184(1), 226–235.Retrieved from the Walden
Library databases.Goebel, M. U., Meykadeh, N., Kou, W., Schedlowski, M., & Hengge, U. R.
(2008). Behavioral conditioning of antihistamine effects in patients with allergic
rhinitis. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 77(4), 227–234.Retrieved from the Walden
Library databases.Leandro, C. G., de Lima, T. M., Folador, A., Alba-Loreiro, T., do Nascimento,
E., de Castro, R. M., … Curi, R. (2006). Physical training attenuates the stress-induced
changes in rat t-lymphocyte function. Neuroimmunomodulation, 13(2), 105–113.Retrieved
from the Walden Library databases.Vits, S., Cesko, E., Enck, P., Hillen, U., Schadendorf, D., &
Schedlowski, M. (2011). Behavioural conditioning as the mediator of placebo responses in
the immune system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366(1572), 1799–
1807.The Dana Foundation. (n. d.). Immune conditioning in premalignant HPV disease.
Retrieved from http://www.dana.org/grants/human/detail.aspx?id=8820Assignment:
Stress and Immune Dysfunction Related to Diseases