Stress & health
Subtitle: biological and psychological interactions
By: William R. Lovallo
Contributors: Lovallo, William R.
Edition: 2nd ed
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Stress (Physiology); Stress (Psychology); Mind and body
Other titles: Stress and health
Description: "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. It is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying the relationship between stress and health in psychology, physiology, behavioral medicine, nursing, the neurosciences, and related fields."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-254) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Behavioral medicine and biomedicine; title: Psychosocial models of health and disease; title: History of the concept of stress; title: Normal physiological regulation: the autonomic nervous system and endocrine outflow; title: Physiological regulation during physical and psychological stress; title: Central nervous system integrations of the psychological stress response; title: Stress and the endocrine system; title: The immune system and behavior; title: Helplessness, coping, and health; title: Genes, stress, and behavior; title: Individual differences in reactivity to stress; title: Stress behavior and health