Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Integrative (BBI - Integrative) is an open access journal and a companion title to Brain, Behavior, and Immunity and Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brain-behavior-and-immunity-health). All three sister journals are official publications of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (www.pnirs.org).

The aims of this journal are to: (1) Explore how the mind and body communicate with one another through the immune system with a focus on Eastern approaches; (2) Promote understanding of how regulation of these physiological systems, with an emphasis on immunity, affects physical and mental health; and (3) Advance understanding of Eastern health practices and medicine.

Mind-body connections form the essential basis of Eastern health practices and medicine. BBI-Integrative is dedicated to publishing high-quality research on mind-body investigations dealing with behavioral, neural, endocrine and immune system interactions, with a focus on integrative Asian health practices and medicine. The journal publishes research that defines the effectiveness of Eastern medicine and its physiological underpinnings in both pre-clinical animal models and human studies - regardless of the country of origin or the research center where the research is generated.

Eastern approaches to health and wellness are becoming integrated into Western medicine. This culture has a shared lifestyle of behaviors, traditions and psychosocial interactions that is substantially different from that in the Western world. Some, like movement and mindfulness, have now made their way into acceptance in Western medicine. Other approaches, like herbal dietary medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion, jin shin jyutsu, massage and music therapy, are not commonly used in the West with the underlying physiological mechanistic pathways that are responsible for changes following these treatments being poorly understood.

Publications in a variety of formats are welcome. These include original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses, case reports, special issues and viewpoints.