Stress in Health and Disease (eBook)

Hans Selye (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
1300 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-9221-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Stress in Health and Disease 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 34
Dedication 6
FOREWORD 8
PREFATORY REMARKS ON THE STYLE OF THIS BOOK 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 32
CHAPTER I. HISTORY AND GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE STRESS CONCEPT 48
HISTORY 48
GENERAL OUTLINE 59
CHAPTER II. STRESSORS AND CONDITIONING AGENTS 80
Trauma 80
Drugs 97
Hormones and Hormone-like Substances 125
Diet 132
Other Agents 133
Temperature Variations (including Frostbite) 141
Sound 169
Ionizing Rays 183
Light Rays 187
Ultraviolet Rays 188
Vibration 188
Air Blasts 193
Compression, Decompression 193
Gravity 194
Electricity, Electroshock 199
Magnetism 205
Osmotic Pressure 206
Microorganisms and Their Toxins 207
Hypoxia, Decreased Barometric Pressure and Hyperbaric Oxygenation 213
Muscular Exercise 222
Restraint 229
Athletics 236
Neuropsychologic Stimuli 241
Generalities 242
Pain and Grief 245
Anxiety, Anticipation, Fear, Arousal 248
Sleep Deprivation 274
Motivation 279
Cognition 281
Sensory Deprivation, Boredom, Monotony 285
Pleasure 289
Handling and Gentling 290
Pollution 292
Social, Cultural, Family 293
Crowding 303
Isolation 310
Captivity 315
Concentration Camps, POWs 317
Relocation and Travel 322
Urbanization 326
Catastrophe, Accidents 328
Circadian 330
Hibernation 344
Meteorologic Influences 346
Aerospace 347
Parachute Jumping 364
Navy, Marine, Submarine 368
Diving 369
Military Life, including Combat 372
Automobile Driving 378
Executive Life 388
Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing 390
Law 395
Police Work 396
Shift Work 397
Telephone and Telegraph Operators 400
Various Other Occupations 401
Age 403
Sex (Including the Sexual Cycle) 430
Vertebrates 437
Invertebrates 483
CHAPTER III. CHARACTERISTIC MANIFESTATIONS OF STRESS 496
CHEMICAL CHANGES 496
HORMONES AND HORMONE-LIKE SUBSTANCES 499
ACTH 513
MORPHOLOGIC CHANGES 633
FUNCTIONAL CHANGES 697
LIST OF STRESS TESTS 712
CHAPTER IV. DISEASES OF ADAPTATION 770
GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES OF ADAPTATION 773
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (INCLUDING HYPER-TENSION,CARDIAC INFARCTS, PERIARTERITIS NODOSA ) 807
NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASES 853
OTHER DISEASES OF ADAPTATION 897
CHAPTER V. TREATMENT 941
CHAPTER VI. THEORIES 973
GENERAL MECHANISMS 973
NERVOUS MECHANISMS 973
HORMONAL MECHANISMS 1058
OTHER HORMONES AND HORMONE-LIKE SUBSTANCES 1166
VARIOUS MECHANISMSTHE FIRST MEDIATOR 1181
GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME (G.A.S.) VS. LOCAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME (L.A.S.) 1184
CONDITIONING 1186
THE THREE PHASES OF THE G.A .S.,ADAPTATION ENERGY, AGING 1191
STRESS AND FATIGUE 1201
VARIOUS OTHER THEORIES 1203
CHAPTER VII. VARIOUS OTHER RELATED TOPICS 1209
LEGAL IMPLICATIONS 1209
EPILOGUE 1215
AUTHOR INDEX 1218
SUBJECT INDEX 1278

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-9221-0 / 1483192210
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-9221-5 / 9781483192215