Does anyone know what happened to psychoneuroimmunology, and why we don't hear so much about it these days?

Does anyone know what happened to psychoneuroimmunology, and why we don't hear so much about it these days?
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There is an active research center for psychoneuroimmunology where I work. I don’t think it has gone anywhere. If you look at the pubmed timeline, it seems to have been well-studied in the 1940s-1950s, with a larger resurgence in recent years: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=psychoneuroimmunology&sort=date
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