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Termine, Termine, Termine...
Hier siehst du, was alles demnächst bei uns ansteht. Du bist herzlich eingeladen, bei unseren Treffen vorbeizuschauen! Wir freuen uns auf dich!
Termine, Termine, Termine...
Hier siehst du, was alles demnächst bei uns ansteht. Du bist herzlich eingeladen, bei unseren Treffen vorbeizuschauen! Wir freuen uns auf dich!
Prof. Dr. Eva Peters
“How the skin deals with stress – the clinical application of psychoneuroimmunologic discoveries in an organ”
The stress reaction of the skin
The outcome of the interaction between psychosocial stress and biological processes is crucial for the bodies stress reaction. Stressors causing a maladaptive immune response are whether of biological such as toxins or microbes or psychological origin, e. g. daily stress or traumatic events. Being the barrier between the environment and the body itself, the skin is a fitting model to elucidate toxic stress reactions. Due to maladies such as neurodermatitis, neuro-immune interactions and malfunctions are also covered by this model. The most common stress-related adaption is seen in the neuroendocrine system concerning the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) and the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). At the same time, changes in the neuroanatomy and neuroimmune communication can be observed under stress exposure. The presence of neurotrophins, released under this circumstance, increases the innervation of the skin with peptidergic nerve-fibers. Their release of further stress mediators such as substance P results in a stronger interaction with mast cells promoting neurogenic inflammation. At this point, one can consider the skin as “alert”. Additional stressors (e.g. Allergens) along with psychosocial stress can worsen the inflammation as well as the barrier function of the skin.
Curriculum vitae
Professional career
since 2010 Direction of the psychoneuroimmunology lab, Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Justus-Liebig-University
Gießen
since 2004 Direction of the working group “Psychoneuroimmunology of the Skin“, Charité Centrum 12, Internal Medicine and Dermatology,
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2001 – 2004 Scientific cooperation and assistance, Psychoneuroimmunology lab, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
1999 – 2001 Scientific cooperation and assistance, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, UKE Hamburg-Eppendorf
1998 – 1999 Scholarship / Clinical Trial Execution, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University Bradford, UK
1998 Research fellow, Department of Endocrinology, Nutrition and Diabetes, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA
1990 – 1998 Degree in Human Medicine, Philosophy, Ethnology and Theater Studies, FU and HU Berlin
2006 Habilitation, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Würzburg
2004 Approbation
2000 Dr. med., University of Essen
1997 State examination in Medicine, University of Essen
Other Activities
since 2019 Member of the scientific advisory board of the journal for Psychosomatics and medical Psychotherapy
since 2017 Coeditor PLOSone
2014 – 2016 Vice-speaker of the Loewe research focus „Non-neuronal Cholinergic Systems“ (NNCS)
since 2011 Vice-speaker of the working group Neuro-endocrino-immunology (AKNEI), German Society of Immunology (DGFI)
since 2011 Board member working group psychosomatic Dermatology (APD), German Dermatological Society (DDG)
since 2007 Special consultation "stress-consultation / mental stress and skin / psycho-oncology", Clinic for Dermatology, Charité-
Universitätsmedizin, Berlin