Stress & Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions (Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology) - Softcover

Lovallo, William R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803970013 ISBN 13: 9780803970014

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1997

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Book by Lovallo William R

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Reseña del editor:

`An exemplary introduction to the concept of psychological stress, its physiological mechanisms, and its effects on health and disease.... Each chapter contains a summary and list of further reading. There is an interesting historical section as well as sound treatment of current research. His thesis is that we are "living beings whose behaviour is not separate from our physical makeup and whose health is not separate from our thoughts and emotions"' - Scientific and Medical Network Journal

This thought-provoking book examines the biological links between how we think and feel, and the potential changes in our health that result from stress.

The author examines: how the mind/body dichotomy developed historically, with resultant difficulties for research into how social processes and emotions improve or worsen health; the psychophysiological linkages between cognition, emotion, the brain and peripheral mechanisms by which the body is regulated; and how individual differences in physiology and evaluations of events can have physical and long-term consequences. The book also provides a general understanding of how central nervous system mechanisms connect thoughts and emotions to autonomic and endocrine processes.

Biografía del autor:

William R. Lovallo (PhD, biological psychology, University of Oklahoma, 1978) conducts research on relationships between stress, biological responses, and their implications for health. His current projects address cardiovascular and endocrine responses during mental stress and effects on persons at risk for alcoholism and other addictions. He has served as director of the Behavioral Sciences Laboratories and as senior research career scientist at the VA Medical Center and is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. Lovallo has also served as associate director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Mind-Body Interactions. He is on advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration.

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• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0803970013
• ISBN 13: 9780803970014
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224