Immunological Mechanisms of Sickness Behavior in Viral Infection [PDF]
Viruses, 2021 Sickness behavior is the common denominator for a plethora of changes in normal behavioral routines and systemic metabolism during an infection. Typical symptoms include temperature, muscle weakness, and loss of appetite.
Mia Krapić +2 more
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Back to the future of psychoneuroimmunology: Studying inflammation-induced sickness behavior [PDF]
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 2021 What do we know about sickness behavior? In this article, I guide you through some of the complexity of sickness behavior occurring after an immune challenge.
Julie Lasselin
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So Many Faces, Phases, and Facets, Sickness Behavior Beyond Disciplines [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Animals, including human beings, modify their behavior when they fall sick. Interestingly, sociology, biology, and psychology have at different times in their history developed constructs of illness or sickness behavior. The aims of the present paper are
Jan Pieter Konsman
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Assessing sickness behavior in the French: Validation of the French translation of the sickness questionnaire (SicknessQ) in a non-clinical French population [PDF]
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 2023 The Sickness Questionnaire (SicknessQ) is a questionnaire developed to assess symptoms of sickness behavior, including somatic, behavioral, and affective dimensions.
Anna Andreasson +4 more
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Lipopolysaccharide‐induced sickness behavior is not altered in male Fmr1‐deficient mice [PDF]
Brain and Behavior, 2023 Objectives Fragile X syndrome is the main monogenetic cause of intellectual disability and autism. Alterations in the immune system are commonly found in these developmental disorders.
Danielle Santana‐Coelho +8 more
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Brain Perivascular Macrophages Do Not Mediate Interleukin-1-Induced Sickness Behavior in Rats [PDF]
Pharmaceuticals, 2021 Sickness behavior, characterized by on overall reduction in behavioral activity, is commonly observed after bacterial infection. Sickness behavior can also be induced by the peripheral administration of Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or
Léa Chaskiel +2 more
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The Contribution of Sociocultural Factors in Shaping Self-Reported Sickness Behavior [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Sickness behavior is an evolutionarily conserved phenomenon found across a diverse range of animals involving a change in motivational priorities to theoretically maximize energetic investment in immune function and recovery.
Eric C. Shattuck +6 more
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Sickness behavior may follow fracture as well as infection [PDF]
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 2020 Sickness behavior, induced by pro-inflammatory cytokines in the early stages of an infection, is well known. A case report of three fracture patients, who were not taking analgesic medication, suggests that the initial symptoms experienced, particularly ...
Rachel Nicoll
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Patients with ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and chronic pain report similar level of sickness behavior as individuals injected with bacterial endotoxin at peak inflammation [PDF]
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 2020 Background: Chronic sickness behavior is implicated in ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and chronic pain but the level of subjective sickness behavior in these conditions has not been investigated or compared to other clinical ...
Martin A. Jonsjö +12 more
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No evidence of sickness behavior in immune‐challenged field crickets [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Sickness behavior is a taxonomically widespread coordinated set of behavioral changes that increases shelter‐seeking while reducing levels of general activity, as well as food (anorexia) and water (adipsia) consumption, when fighting infection by ...
Clint D. Kelly, Jules Mc Cabe Leroux
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