Stress and Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions

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SAGE, 2005 - 279 pagina's

Stress and Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions, Second Edition examines the biological links between our emotions and changes in our health. Author William R. Lovallo provides an introduction to the concept of psychological stress, its physiological manifestations, and its effects on health and disease. The book concentrates on the psychophysiological relationship between cognitions, emotions, brain functions, and the peripheral mechanisms by which the body is regulated. Stress and Health is the only book on the biology of psychological stress for students and researchers in the behavioral sciences.

 

Inhoudsopgave

Preface
7
Behavioral Medicine and Biomedicine
8
Psychosocial Models of Health and Disease
13
History of the Concept of Stress
29
Homeostatic Regulation
57
Physical and Psychological Stress
63
Central Nervous System Integrations
83
7
100
Individual Differences in Reactivity to Stress
197
Behavior Stress and Health
221
References
237
63
251
Author Index
255
64
257
71
263
83
269

The Immune System and Behavior
133
Williams R B 172 173 205 215
149
Helplessness Coping and Health
157
Genes Stress and Behavior
179

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Populaire passages

Pagina 246 - Hinderliter, AL (1999). High stress responsivity predicts later blood pressure only in combination with positive family history and high life stress. Hypertension, 33, 1458-1464.
Pagina 243 - Structural factor" in primary and secondary hypertension. Hypertension, 16, 89-101.
Pagina 242 - TC, et al. (1997). The longitudinal course of psychopathology in Cushing's syndrome after correction of hypercortisolism.

Over de auteur (2005)

William R. Lovallo's research is concerned with relationships between states of stress, biological responses, and their implications for health. His current projects address cardiovascular and endocrine responses during mental stress and effects of caffeine and stress on persons at risk for hypertension. He completed his doctorate in biological psychology at the University of Oklahoma in 1978. Since that time, he has served as Director of the Behavioral Sciences Laboratories at the VA Medical Center and is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. He has also served as Associate Director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions. He has served on several advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration.

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