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Stress in health and disease

Title: Stress in health and disease / edited by Bengt B. Arnetz and Rolf Ekman.
Publication: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, ©2006.

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xxiii, 410 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Modern fatigue : a historical perspective / Karin Johannisson -- Evolutionary aspects of stress / Björn Folkow -- Stress : it is all in the brain / Hege Randi Eriksen and Holger Ursin -- Collective traumatic stress : crisis and catastrophes / Lars Weisœth -- Stress : why managers should care / Bengt B. Arnetz -- The empowered organization and personnel health / Töres Theorell -- Can health be subject to management control? : suggestions and experiences / Ulf Johanson and Andreas Backlund -- The neonatal and pubertal ontogeny of the stress response : implications for adult physiology and behavior / Russell D. Romeo and Bruce S. McEwen -- Neurobiological and behavioral consequences of exposure to childhood traumatic stress / Martin H. Teicher ... [et al.] -- The brain in stress : influence of environment and lifestyle on stress-related disorders / Rolf Ekman and Bengt B. Arnetz -- The healthy cortisol response / Tommy Olsson and Robert Sapolsky -- Antistress, well-being, empathy and social support / Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg and Maria Petersson -- Stress, sleep and restitution / Torbjörn Åkerstedt -- Brain mechanisms in stress and negative affect / Mats Fredrikson and Tomas Furmark -- Is it dangerous to be afraid? / Markus Heilig -- Fatigue and recovery / Bengt B. Arnetz and Rolf Ekman -- The role of stress in the etiology of medically unexplained syndromes / James Rubin and Simon Wessely -- Oxidative inflammatory stress in obesity and diabetes / Paresh Dandona ... [et al.] -- The metabolic syndrome / Christian Berne and Per Björntorp -- Chronic pain : the diathesis-stress model / Yuan Bo Peng, Perry N. Fuchs, and Robert J. Gatchel -- Emotional stress, positive emotions, and psychophysiological coherence / Rollin McCraty and Dana Tomasino -- Stress systems in aging : cognitions and dementia / Nicole C. Schommer and Isabella Heuser -- Stress and addiction / Bo Söderpalm and Anna Söderpalm.

ISBN

3527312218
9783527312214

LCCN

9783527312214

OCLC

ocm71237652
71237652
SCSB-9776879

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Princeton University Library