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Robert Ader, exposed link between stress, illness; 79

By Paul Vitello

 |  New York Times  

  December 29, 2011

Robert Ader, an experimental psychologist who was among the first scientists to show how mental processes influence the body’s immune system, a finding that changed modern medicine, died Dec. 20 in Pittsford, N.Y. He was 79. Mr. Ader, who spent his entire career as a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, conducted some of the original experiments in a field he named himself, psychoneuroimmunology.

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