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Tryptophan and Brain Disorders · Journal article
Brain Behavior and Immunity · July 30, 2026
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This is a mechanistic review proposing that psychoneuroimmunological responses to biological challenge, as characterized in rodent models, could inform development of wearable early-warning systems for threat exposure. The proposal is conceptual; no human efficacy data, validated biomarker algorithms, or real-time detection systems are presented or evaluated.
Journal article. Experimental rodent models; generalizability to human biological threat detection not established..
Peripheral immune challenges rapidly engage central immunosensory neural circuits, followed by recruitment of autonomic and stress-related systems in rodents. Response heterogeneity across individuals and contexts is marked, necessitating continuous personalised monitoring. Early-phase sickness behaviour and neuroimmune interactions identified as potential candidates for real-time threat detection utility.
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This work outlines a research agenda rather than actionable clinical guidance. Professionals should view this as motivating further translational and clinical research into PNI-based surveillance, not as evidence for deployment of detection systems.
A conceptual review proposing psychoneuroimmunological mechanisms as a basis for early threat detection, grounded in rodent models and mechanistic theory rather than clinical efficacy data or validated detection systems.
This work outlines a research agenda rather than actionable clinical guidance. Professionals should view this as motivating further translational and clinical research into PNI-based surveillance, not as evidence for deployment of detection systems.
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The growing frequency of emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and accidental or deliberate biological threat releases underscores the urgent need for early detection of biological threat exposure. Current diagnostic approaches primarily rely on identification of specific pathogens or toxins, often after clinical symptoms have emerged. An alternative approach could exploit the body's conserved psychoneuroimmunological (PNI) response to biological threat. This approach could provide a host-centred framework capable of detecting real-time deviations from baseline PNI status, even in response to previously unencountered threats. Using lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as a well-characterised model of immune challenge, we examine experimental work in rodents to evaluate how early-phase sickness behaviour, and the neuroimmune interactions that drive this response, can inform the development of wearable early-warning systems. Drawing on anatomical, molecular, electroencephalography (EEG), and behavioural studies, we identify early PNI alterations with potential utility for real-time threat detection and discuss analytical frameworks through which these signals may be leveraged. Converging evidence indicates that peripheral immune challenges rapidly engage central immunosensory neural circuits, followed by recruitment of autonomic, stress-related systems, and higher-order integrative centres. This response is strongly modulated by interindividual and contextual factors, producing marked heterogeneity in response type, timing, and magnitude, underscoring the need for continuous, personalised monitoring. We discuss how advances in wearable biosensing, combined with machine-learning-based approaches, could leverage autonomic, EEG, and behavioural signals to detect subtle deviations from an individual's PNI baseline, and outline knowledge gaps to translate mechanistic insights into real-time surveillance systems.
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