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Sickness Behaviour: Causes and Effects


M Viljoen
A Panzer

Abstract

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





SA Fam Pract 2003;45(10):15-18


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eISSN: 2078-6204
print ISSN: 2078-6190