Sickness Behaviour: Causes and Effects

  • M Viljoen University of Pretoria

Abstract

This paper discusses sickness behavior as a central motivational state. It deals with the adaptational value and underlying mechanisms of sickness behavior and with the consequences of the body's failure to terminate the activity of the symptoms-producing cytokines .

Author Biography

M Viljoen, University of Pretoria
PhD, Panzer A, MBChB, PhD Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
Issue
Vol 45 No 9 (2003)
Section
Original Research
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