Stress in Health and Disease addresses the most urgent issues, combining a solid basic research approach with applied individual and stress issues, including interventions.

Features:

• Details causes of stress and its neuro-cognitive and biological implications
• Covers 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
• 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

Contents

1. Modern Fatigue: A Historical Perspective
2. Evolutionary Aspects of Stress
3. Stress – It Is All in the Brain
4. Collective Traumatic Stress: Crisis and Catastrophes
5. Stress – Why Managers Should Care
6. The Empowered Organization and Personnel Health
7. Can Health be Subject to Management Control? Suggestions and Experiences
8. The Neonatal and Pubertal Ontogeny of the Stress Response: Implications for Adult Physiology and Behavior
9. Neurobiological and Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Childhood Traumatic Stress
10. The Brain in Stress – In.uence of Environment and Lifestyle on Stress-Related Disorders
11. The Healthy Cortisol Response
12. Antistress, Well-Being, Empathy and Social Support
13. Stress, Sleep and Restitution
14. Brain Mechanisms In Stress and Negative Affect
15. Is It Dangerous To Be Afraid
16. Fatigue and Recovery
17. The Role of Stress in the Etiology of Medically Unexplained Syndromes
18. Oxidative Inflammatory Stress in Obesity and Diabetes
19. The Metabolic Syndrome
20. Chronic Pain: the Diathesis–Stress Model
21. Emotional Stress, Positive Emotions, and Psychophysiological Coherence
22. Stress Systems in Aging – Cognitions and Dementia
23. Stress and Addiction

Index

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