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Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation (Paperback)
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Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation (Paperback)
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The concept of homeostasis, the maintenance of the internal
physiological environment of an organism within tolerable limits,
is well established in medicine and physiology. In contrast,
allostasis is a relatively new idea of 'viability through change'.
With allostatic regulation by cephalic involvement, the body adapts
to potentially diverse and dangerous situations through the
activation of neural, hormonal, or immunological mechanisms.
Allostasis explains how regulatory events maintain organismic
viability, or not, in diverse contexts with varying set points of
bodily needs and competing motivations. This 2005 book introduces
the concept of allostasis and sets it alongside traditional views
of homeostasis. It addresses basic regulatory systems and examines
the behavior of bodily regulation under duress. The basic concepts
of physiological homeostasis are integrated with disorders like
depression, stress, anxiety and addiction. It will therefore appeal
to graduate students, medical students and researchers working in
physiology, epidemiology, endocrinology, neuroendocrinology,
neuroscience, and psychology.
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