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Prof. Asya Rolls
Young and Promising Bio-Medical Researcher
Thoughts and emotions can impact physiology. This connection is evident by the emergence of disease following stress or recovery in response to placebo treatment. Nevertheless, this fundamental aspect of physiology remains largely unexplored. By combining state of the art tools in neuroscience and in immunology Prof. Rolls’s lab aims to uncover how specific brain activity affects the immune system, the organism’s main protection mechanism. They use state of the art tools in neuroscience and immunology to identify brain areas that can regulate immunity and map how they regulate immunity.
Using this approach, they discovered that activation of the brain’s reward system, responsible for positive expectations, boosts anti bacterial immunity and can attenuate tumor growth.
This approach and strategy of uncovering the mechanisms underlying brain-immune communication, is expected to lead to new therapeutic approaches that will allow us to harness the curative potential embedded in our brains.
