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Stress: Immunology and Inflammation, Volume Five in the Handbook of Stress series, covers the influence physiologic stress has on immunity, immunology and inflammation. It provides a quick orientation to the subject for research, in clinic use, and in everyday life. Integrated closely with new behavioral findings and with relevance to human conditions, the concepts and data in this volume offer readers cutting-edge information. It will be of prime interest to neuroscientists, clinicians, researchers, academics, and students in Neuroendocrinology, Neuroscience, Biomedicine, Immunology, Endocrinology, Psychology, Psychiatry and some aspects of the Social Sciences. The effect of stress on our emotional and physical health can be devastating. There have been significant advances in our understanding of the influence stress has on inflammation in the human body and also our immunity to various afflictions.
Stress: Neuroendocrinology and Neurobiology: Handbook of Stress Series, Volume 2, focuses on neuroendocrinology, the discipline that deals with the way that the brain controls hormonal secretion, and in turn, the way that hormones control the brain. There have been significant advances in our understanding of neuroendocrine molecular and epigenetic mechanisms, especially in the way in which stress-induced hormonal and neurochemical changes affect brain plasticity, neuronal connectivity, and synaptic function. The book features the topic of epigenetics, and how it enables stress and other external factors to affect genetic transmission and expression without changes in DNA sequence. Integrated closely with new behavioral findings and relevance to human disorders, the concepts and data in this volume offer the reader cutting-edge information on the neuroendocrinology of stress. Volume 2 is of prime interest to neuroscientists, clinicians, researchers, academics, and graduate students in neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, biomedicine, endocrinology, psychology, psychiatry, and in some areas of the social sciences, including stress and its management in the workplace.
Like the first edition, the second edition of the Encyclopedia of
Stress covers nearly every conceivable aspect and ramification of
stress including a wide range of related topics such as neuroimmune
interactions, cytokines, enzymatic disorders, effects on the
cardiovascular system, immunity and inflammation, and physical
illnesses. Over the last decade, scientists have presented
convincing research showing that psychological stress increases
vulnerability to disease. They now understand more clearly that
stress may be the thread tying together illnesses that were
previously believed to be unrelated. Bone loss, increased abdominal
fat, and damaged memory cells in the hippocampus have been linked
to elevated cortisol levels.
This fourth volume in the Handbook of Stress series, Stress: Genetics, Epigenetics and Genomics, deals with the influence that genetics, epigenetics, and genomics have on the effects of and responses to stress. Chapters refer to epigenetic mechanisms that involve DNA methylation, histone modification, and/or noncoding RNA-associated gene activation or silencing. There is also coverage of epigenetic mechanisms in stress-related transgenerational transmission of characteristics, and how these may help explain heritability in some complex human diseases. The Handbook of Stress series, comprised of self-contained volumes that each focus on a specific stress area, covers the significant advances made since the publication of Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Stress (2000 and 2007). Volume 4 is ideal for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty and clinicians interested in stress genetics, epigenetics and genomics involved in neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, biomedicine, endocrinology, psychology, psychiatry and the social sciences
Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior: Handbook in Stress Series, Volume 1, examines stress and its management in the workplace and is targeted at scientific and clinical researchers in biomedicine, psychology, and some aspects of the social sciences. The audience is appropriate faculty and graduate and undergraduate students interested in stress and its consequences. The format allows access to specific self-contained stress subsections without the need to purchase the whole nine volume Stress handbook series. This makes the publication much more affordable than the previously published four volume Encyclopedia of Stress (Elsevier 2007) in which stress subsections were arranged alphabetically and therefore required purchase of the whole work. This feature will be of special significance for individual scientists and clinicians, as well as laboratories. In this first volume of the series, the primary focus will be on general stress concepts as well as the areas of cognition, emotion, and behavior.
Neuroendocrinology, the discipline concerned with how the
nervous system controls hormonal secretion and how hormones control
the brain, is pivotal to physiology and medicine.
Neuroendocrinology has disclosed and underpins fundamental
physiological, molecular biological and genetic principles such as
the regulation of gene transcription and translation, the
mechanisms of chemical neurotransmission and intracellular and
systemic feedback control systems. Reproduction, growth, stress,
aggression, metabolism, birth, feeding and drinking and blood
pressure are some of the bodily functions that are triggered and/or
controlled by neuroendocrine systems. In turn, neuroendocrine
dysfunction due to genetic or other deficits can lead, for example,
to infertility, impotence, precocious or delayed puberty, defective
or excessive growth, obesity and anorexia, Cushing s Syndrome,
hypertension or thyroid disorders. These as well as neuroendocrine
tumors are some of the themes covered in the 36 chapters of the
Handbook. Drafted by internationally acknowledged experts in the
field, the Handbook chapters feature detailed up-to-date
bibliographies as well as "how do we know?" call out sections that
highlight the experimental or technical foundations for major
concepts, principles, or methodological advances in each area.
Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral
fellows and faculty in neuroscience, medicine, endocrinology,
psychiatry, psychology and cognate disciplines, the "Handbook of
Neuroendocrinology" satisfies an unmet need that will prove useful
at the laboratory bench as well as in the office.
Stress is a universal phenomenon that impacts adversely on most people. Following on the heels of "Stress Science: Neuroendocrinology" and "Stress Consequences: Mental, Neuropsychological and Socioeconomic," this third derivative volume will provide a readily accessible and affordable compendium that explains the phenomenon of stress as it relates physically and mentally to war, conflict and disaster. The first section will be dedicated to study of the link between stress and various forms of conflict. Specific instances of conflict will be discussed - the Gulf wars, Korea, Hiroshima bombing, the Holocaust, 9/11, Northern Ireland, terrorism in general, torture. The second section will explore the stress impact of more general physical disasters such as airline and vehicle accidents, earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. The final section will focus on the clinical relationship between conflict stress and various mental diseases - PTSD, suicide, disaster syndrome, etc - as well as the adverse impact of stress on human physical health in general. Comprised of about 100 top articles selected from Elsevier s
"Encyclopedias of Stress," the volume will provide a valuable desk
reference that will put relevant articles readily at the fingertips
of all scientists who consider stress. Chapters offer impressive and unique scope with topics addressing the relationship between stress generated by war, conflict and disaster and various physical/mental disorders Richly illustrated with over 200 figures, dozens in color Articles carefully selected by one of the world s most preeminent stress researchers and contributors represent the most outstanding scholarship in the field, with each chapter providing fully vetted and reliable expert knowledge"
Stress is a universal phenomenon that impacts adversely on most
people. This volume provides a readily accessible compendium that
explains the phenomenon of stress, the neural, endocrine and
molecular mechanisms involved, the clinical effects, and the impact
on individuals and society. Clinical attention focuses on disorders
of the stress control system (e.g. Cushing s Syndrome: Addison s
Disease) and the adverse impact of stress on human physicaland
mental health . Detailed reviews address disorders such as PTSD,
anxiety, major depression, psychoses and related disorders such as
combat fatigue and burnout. The work covers interactions between
stress and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer s disease
and Parkinson s disease, as well as stress-immune-inflammatory
interactions in relation to cancer and autoimmune and viral
diseases. Emphasis is alsoplaced on the role of stress in obesity,
hypertension, diabetes type II and other features of the metabolic
syndrome which has now reached epidemic proportions in the USA and
other countries. Richly illustrated with over 200 figures, 75 in color Priced affordably, this compendium of articles appeals to the end user interested in stress research who would not otherwise purchase the larger Encyclopedia of Stress Articles carefully selected by one of the world s most preeminent stress researchers and contributors represent the most outstanding scholarship in the field, with each chapter providing fully vetted and reliable expert knowledge "
Stress is a universal phenomenon that impacts adversely on most
people. This volume provides a readily accessible compendium that
focuses on the physical and psychological consequences of stress
for individuals and society. Clinical attention focuses on
disorders of the stress control system (e.g. Cushing s Syndrome:
Addison s Disease) and the adverse impact of stress on human
physical and mental health. Detailed reviews address disorders such
as PTSD, anxiety, major depression, psychoses and related disorders
such as combat fatigue and burnout. The work covers interactions
between stress and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer s
disease and Parkinson s disease, as well as
stress-immune-inflammatory interactions in relation to cancer and
autoimmune and viral diseases. Emphasis is also placed on the role
of stress in obesity, hypertension, diabetes type II and other
features of the metabolic syndrome which has now reached epidemic
proportions in the USA and other countries.
Stress impacts the daily lives of humans and all species on Earth. Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pathology, the third volume of the Handbook of Stress series, covers stress-related or induced physiology, biochemistry, and pathology. Integrated closely with new behavioral findings and relevance to human conditions, the concepts and data in this volume offer readers cutting-edge information on the physiology of stress. A sequel to Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Stress (2000 and 2007), this Handbook of Stress series covers the many significant advances made since then and comprises self-contained volumes that each focus on a specific area within the field of stress. Targeted at scientific and clinical researchers in neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, biomedicine, endocrinology, psychology, psychiatry, the social sciences, and stress and its management in the workplace, this volume and series are ideal for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty interested in stress and its consequences.
This second volume of Basic and Clinical Aspects of Neuroscience is devoted to the various transmitter systems of the brain (classical and neuropeptides). In Part I the basic aspects are given, including a critical appraisal of the methods used yesterday and today to describe such neurotransmitter systems. Part II concentrates on the functioning in the body of these transmitter systems under physiologic and pathologic conditions. It goes on to show how neuroendocrine investigations may give insights into the functioning of neurotransmitter sys tems at least in the hypothalamus, to end with a chapter which assesses very critically the errors and deficiencies of the concepts and techniques used in the attempt to understand the functioning of the brain and the mind. The editors have been fortunate to have the eight chapters written by a team of investigators working under the direction of Professor G. Fink in the MRC Brain Metabolic Unit at Edinburgh University. We are grateful to him and his colleagues for their work in writing these chapters and for the fine result they achieved. I am grateful for the editorial work done by Professor E. E. Muller (Milan) and Professor M. O. Thorner (Charlottesville), which made this volume possible. Basle, May 1987 E. Fluckiger Managing Editor Table of Contents Part I: Biochemistry of Transmitter Molecules Introduction: Role of Chemical Neurotransmission in Brain Function G.FINK References 4 Classical Transmitters and Neuromodulators 1. K. MCQUEEN Process of Synaptic Transmission. 7 Classification of Synaptic Messengers 7 Dale's Principle ...... ."
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