Stress in Health and Disease
Contributors: Arvid Carlsson (Foreword); Bengt B. Arnetz (Editor); Rolf Ekman (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: October 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9783527312214
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Medical; Self-Help; Stress Management; Medical / Pharmacology; Health Risk Assessment
Description: Address the most urgent issues, combining a solid basic research approach with applied individual and stress issues, including interventions. Throughout, the focus is on our latest knowledge about various causes of stress and its neuro-cognitive and biological implications. Authors from Europe as well as the US describe how stress affects the brain of young people as well as adults. They cover the topic from all perspectives, showing how stress affects life in general, from the societal and organizational level to the individual, organ and molecular level. While the book clearly points out stress as a risk factor to health, it also offers a number of evidence-based methods to cope with stress and even ride the positive energy of stress - both as an individual, as well as what managers can do to create a healthy and productive workplace. Written in a reader-friendly and appealing style, the book provides real-life examples from various laboratories, as well as such events as t.