Thinking positive increased a specific brain region's activity and might have heightened immune response after a shot.

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...

"These findings suggest that consciously generated positive expectations can engage reward circuitry to influence immune ...

Positive thinking boosts vaccine effectiveness, study finds - Findings may shed more light on the biological process behind ...

Increasing activity in a deep-brain region can boost the immune system’s response to vaccines —and people can be trained to ...

Training yourself to expect good things to happen sounds like helpful advice in general. Now, new research suggests that good ...

Researchers have identified the neural mechanisms in the brain that regulate both positive and negative impressions of a social encounter, as well as how an imbalance between the two could lead to ...

Mount Sinai researchers have identified for the first time the neural mechanisms in the brain that regulate both positive and negative impressions of a social encounter, as well as how an imbalance ...