Stress and your health : from vulnerability to resilience / Hymie Anisman

"Stress and Your Health: From Vulnerability to Resilience presents an evidence-based evaluation of the various effects of stress, along with methods to alleviate distress and stress-related illnesses. Examines myriad stressor effects and proven ways to alleviate stress in our lives Covers a wide range of stressor-related topics including therapeutic strategies to deal with stress and factors that hinder treatment of stress Makes difficult biochemical and immunological concepts accessible to a non-specialist audience Addresses many of the factors that cause individuals to be more vulnerable to the impact of stressors and at increased risk for pathology "--.

"Covers a wide range of stressor-related topics including therapeutic strategies to deal with stress and factors that hinder treatment of stress"--.

Machine generated contents note:What this book is about --What do we mean when we talk about stressors? --The characteristics of stressors: comparing apples, oranges, and lemons --Chronic stressors and allostatic overload --Before you go ... --Vulnerability and resilience --Genetic influences --Age --Sex --Personality differences in relation to stress responses --Previous stressor experiences --Stress generation --Before you go ... --Appraising stressors --Guidance through primary and secondary appraisals --Thinking fast and slow --Guideposts and anchors --Appraisals based on what others think --Appraisals in relation to learning, memory, automaticity, expectation, and habit --Positive and negative emotions --Gauging stressors --Before you go ... --First responses to stressors --Coping methods --Personal growth and finding meaning --Social support --Loneliness --Unsupportive interactions --Social rejection --Forgiveness and trust --Empathy --Before you go ... --What's a hormone? --Linking hormones and behaviors --The hormonal stress response --Hormones of the autonomic nervous system --The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and glucocorticoids --What cortisol (corticosterone) does for us --The cortisol/corticosterone response to an acute stressor --Cortisol variations in humans --Yesterday's stressors influence today's responses --A cacophony of hormones associated with stress, eating and energy regulation: leptin, ghrelin, CRH, and neuropeptide Y --Oxytocin and positive responses --Estrogen and testosterone --Before you go ... --Neuronal and glial processes in relation to challenges --Stressors influence neurotransmitter functioning --Acetylcholine (ACh) --Serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine --Corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH): beyond the HPA system --Glutamate --Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) --Cannabinoids --Neurotrophic factors --The past influences the future --Before you go ... --A brief look at how the immune system works --Cells of the immune system --Immune memories --Cytokines: messenger molecules of the immune system --Immune[--]hormone interactions --Stress, brain processes, and immunological changes --Cytokine changes in response to stressors --Before you go ... --Connections over time --Prenatal experiences --Biological correlates of prenatal stress in humans --Consequences of prenatal infection in animals and humans --Stress experienced early in life --Transitional periods --Older age --Before you go ... --Coronary artery disease (CAD) --The heart's response to a challenge --Psychosocial factors associated with heart disease --The influence of stressors on heart disease --Job strain --Depressive illness and heart disease --Socioeconomic status (SES) --Sex-dependent trajectories for heart disease --Personality factors and heart disease --Type A personality --Type D personality --Physiological stress responses associated with heart disease --Sympathetic nervous system reactivity --Inflammatory processes in heart disease --Stress, pathogen burden, and heart disease --Obesity, cytokines, and heart disease --Before you go ... --Type 1 diabetes --Type 2 diabetes --Stressor influences in relation to the development of Type 2 diabetes --Immune factors in Type 2 diabetes --Genetic contributions --Before you go ... --Immunity and illness --Allergies --Infectious illness --Stressors influence vulnerability and the course of infectious illness --Autoimmune disorders --Exacerbation of autoimmune disorders by stressful experiences --Before you go ... --The cancer process --The stress[--]cancer link --Implication for cancer treatment --Stress stemming from cancer --Treating cancer-related distress --Before you go ... --What is depression? --Depressive subtypes --Cognitive theories of depressive disorders --Helplessness --Hopelessness --Depression from an evolutionary perspective --Depression from a neurochemical vantage --Neurobiological explanations of depressive disorders --Serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine in relation to depressive disorders --Gene and environmental interactions --Reward processes in depression: dopamine and anhedonia --Depression and anxiety: corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) as a player in depression --Coordination and discoordination of neuronal process: gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) --Growth factors and depression --Inflammatory processes and depressive disorders --Before you go ... --A plague of anxiety disorders --Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) --Panic disorder --Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) --Phobias and social anxiety --Before you go ... --Acute stress disorder --Posttraumatic stress disorder --Vulnerability and resilience --Neuroanatomical underpinnings of PTSD --Biochemical determinants of PTSD --CRH and corticoids in relation to PTSD-related memories --Norepinephrine and serotonin and PTSD-related memories --GABA and the extinction of fear responses in PTSD --Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and resilience --Before you go ... --What's an addiction --Stress as a provocateur in the addiction process --Reward and aversion in relation to addiction: a multistep process --Dopamine in relation to stress and reward --Corticotropin hormone in relation to stress and addiction --Can eating become an addiction? --An integrated perspective --Treatment for addictions --Before you go ... --How might illness come to affect health? --Major physical illnesses --What patients know and what they need to know --Appraising and coping with illness --Personal control, decision-making, and trust --Social support and unsupportive interactions in the face of illness --Mood changes associated with illness --Adjustment to chronic illnesses: psychological resilience in the face of illness --Stress associated with caregiving --Loss and grief --Before you go ... --Job-related distress --Status and job strain --Burnout --Absenteeism and presenteeism --Bullying in the workplace --Social support in the workplace --Trust in the workplace --Unemployment --Time management and juggling --Before you go ... --Traveling across generations --Parental stress influences on children --Intergenerational effects of trauma: beyond poor parenting --Environments modify gene actions --The case of epigenetic effects --Collective and historic trauma --Before you go ... --Prelude to dealing with stress --Relaxation training --Exposure therapy --Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) --Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) --Meditation --Mindfulness --The default mode network --Positive psychotherapy (PPT) --Giving and receiving --The social cure --Before you go ... --Something about drug treatments --Placebo and nocebo responses --Selecting the right treatment and related caveats --Treating depression --Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) --A cocktail of acronyms: SNRI, NDRI, NaSSA, MAOI --Ketamine --Deep brain stimulation --Anti-inflammatory agents --Treating anxiety disorders --Treating PTSD --Herbal (naturopatbic) treatments --Before you go ... --It's OK to go now ....

Medienart:	E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Erschienen:	Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell ; 2015

Sprache:	Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:	Anisman, Hymie [VerfasserIn]

Links:	onlinelibrary.wiley.com

ISBN:	1-118-85034-3 1-118-85033-5 978-1-118-85034-3 978-1-118-85033-6

Nlm:	2015 F-254 WM 172.4
Themen:	Health PSYCHOLOGY ; Mental Health Psychophysiology Stress, Psychological Stress (Psychology)

Anmerkungen:	Includes bibliographical references and index

Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)

doi:	10.1002/9781118850350

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PPN (Katalog-ID):	1679569937