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Stress & health : biological and psychological interactions / William R. Lovallo.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : SAGE, c2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiv, 279 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781412904780 (pbk.) :
  • 1412904781
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.98 22
LOC classification:
  • QP82.2.S8 L68 2005
Contents:
Behavioral medicine and biomedicine -- Psychosocial models of health and disease -- History of the concept of stress -- Normal physiological regulation: the autonomic nervous system and endocrine outflow -- Physiological regulation during physical and psychological stress -- Central nervous system integrations of the psychological stress response -- Stress and the endocrine system -- The immune system and behavior -- Helplessness, coping, and health -- Genes, stress, and behavior -- Individual differences in reactivity to stress -- Stress behavior and health.
Summary: Lovallo considers such topics as how the mind/body dichotomy developed, the psychophysiological linkages between cognition, emotions and the brain, and how individual differences in perception can have physical and long-term consequences.
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Previous ed. published as: Stress and health. c1997.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Behavioral medicine and biomedicine -- Psychosocial models of health and disease -- History of the concept of stress -- Normal physiological regulation: the autonomic nervous system and endocrine outflow -- Physiological regulation during physical and psychological stress -- Central nervous system integrations of the psychological stress response -- Stress and the endocrine system -- The immune system and behavior -- Helplessness, coping, and health -- Genes, stress, and behavior -- Individual differences in reactivity to stress -- Stress behavior and health.

Lovallo considers such topics as how the mind/body dichotomy developed, the psychophysiological linkages between cognition, emotions and the brain, and how individual differences in perception can have physical and long-term consequences.

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