> Over the last decade-and-a-half, the developing field of
> psychoneuroimmunology has demonstrated repeatedly that an individual's
> psychological state has a direct effect on his or her immune function.
> Perhaps the nursing experience by itself does directly improve the
> immune status of infants.

I love love love love this!
Psychoneuroimmunology is just a lovely word -- I think we should use it
once with every mother we work with, and suggest that she use it with
her doctor, mother-in-law, etc.
"Oh, bottle-feeding is good..." "Well, no; studies in
psychoneuroimmunology show that it's not."

>http://www.drgreene.com/21_552.html
>
And, just in case anyone is looking for some research in the field:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=10550053&dopt=Abstract
or a job to do more research in the field:
http://www.pnirs.org/pages/jobs.html

Jo-Anne Elder, PhD (but not in *that*)


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