Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Fifth Annual Report on Stress, 1955-1956
Author: Fifth Annual Report on Stress
Author: Hans SelyeThe Age of Stress
Author: Mark JacksonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192514997
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
We are living in a stressful world, yet despite our familiarity with the notion, stress remains an elusive concept. In The Age of Stress, Mark Jackson explores the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. In particular, he reveals how the science that legitimates and fuels current anxieties about stress has been shaped by a wide range of socio-political and cultural, as well as biological, factors: stress, he argues, is both a condition and a metaphor. In order to understand the ubiquity and impact of stress in our own times, or to explain how stress has commandeered such a central place in the modern imagination, Jackson suggests that we need to comprehend not only the evolution of the medical science and technology that has gradually uncovered the biological pathways between stress and disease in recent decades, but also the shifting social, economic, and cultural contexts that have invested that scientific knowledge with meaning and authority. In particular, he argues, we need to acknowledge the manner in which enduring concerns about the effects of stress on mental and physical health are the product of broader historical preoccupations with the preservation of personal and political, as well as physiological, stability.
Proceedings of the National Heart and Lung Institute Working Conference on Health Behavior, Basye, Va., May 12-15, 1975
Author: Stephen M. WeissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Proceedings of the National Heart and Lung Institute Working Conference on Health Behavior, Basye, Virginia, May 12-15, 1975
Author: Stress in Health and Disease
Author: Hans SelyePublisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 1483192210
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1301
Book Description
Stress in Health and Disease presents the principal pathways mediating the response to a stressor. It discusses the clinical background of cross-resistance and treatment with stress-hormones. It addresses the diseases of adaptation or stress diseases, diagnostic indicators, and functional changes. Some of the topics covered in the book are the concept of heterostasis; stressors and conditioning agents; morphology of frostbite; characteristics manifestations of stress; catecholamines and their derivatives; various hormones and hormone-like substances; FFA, triglycerides and lipoproteins; morphologic changes; and hypothalamo-hypophyseal system . The gastrointestinal diseases of adaptation are covered. The schizophrenia and related psychoses is discussed. The text describes the manic-depressive disease and senile psychosis. A study of the experimental cardiovascular diseases and neuropsychiatric diseases is presented. A chapter is devoted to the diseases of adaptation in animals. Another section focuses on the shift in adenohypophyseal activity and catatoxic hormones. The book can provide useful information to scientists, doctors, students, and researchers.
Annual Review of Psychology
Author: Calvin Perry StonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publishes original critical reviews of the significant literature and current developments in psychology.
The Physiology and Pathology of Exposure to Stress
Author: Hans SelyePsychobiology of Stress
Author: Stefano Puglisi-AllegraPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400919905
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
From a historical point of view the first studies on the response of the organism to stressful situations in general, and on the psychobiology of stress in particular, are probably those of Cannon and de la Paz, the physiologists who showed in 1911 that the adrenal medulla and the sympathetic system are involved in emergency situations. Cannon noted that the venous blood of cats frightened by barking dogs contained adrenaline, a response of the organism which was prevented by adrenalectomy or by section of the splanchnic nerve innervating the adrenal medulla. Cannon suggested that the adrenal medulla was acting in concert with the sympathetic nervous system, so that both systems were activated during stress. The role of the sympathetic system in response to stressful events was later emphasized by the experiments carried out by Maickel et al. (1967) and by Mason (1968): these authors clearly showed that stressors activate the sympathetic system causing it to release adrenaline and noradrenaline. This line of research may be contrasted with that carried out by Hans Selye, centered on of the adrenal cortex in the stress response. Selye's findings and theories originated the role the so-called hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal cortex (HPA) model of stress: in short, during stress adrenocorticotropic hormone is released from cells of the anterior pituitary and elicits secretion of glucocorticoids from the adrenal cortex.
Municipal Reference Library Notes
Author: New York Public Library. Municipal Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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