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Stress & Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions (Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology) by Lovallo, William R. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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How can ideas be translated into changes in the body? Can stress alter long-term health? Stress and Health examines the biological links between how we think and feel and the potential changes in our health that result from stress. In order to lay the groundwork for understanding the relationship between behavior and health, author William R. Lovallo first examines how the mind/body dichotomy historically developed-creating difficulty in the research and conceptualization of how social processes and emotions improve or worsen health. He then examines the psychophysiological linkages between cognitions, emotions, and the brain and the peripheral mechanism by which the body is regulated. In addition, he examines how individual differences in our physiology and in our perceptions/evaluations of events can have physical and long-term health consequences. Readers of this book will have a better understanding of how the central nervous system mechanisms connect our thoughts and emotions to our autonomic and endocrine processes as well as gaining some useful insights into how psychological processes can contribute to our view of medicine. By assuming a minimal understanding of brain mecha

Author

Lovallo, William R.

Publisher

SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803970014

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Medicine