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“This is a highly entertaining book about a very serious topic. Beautifully written, funny and organized in a way that students and the general public will understand complex notions about stress.” - Sonia Lupien, Director of the Centre for Studies on Human Stress, University of Montreal “Perfect for my stress and cognition module, accessible and informative, great level of detail.” - James Byron-Daniel, University of the West of England, Bristol An Introduction to Stress and Health is the first textbook to fuse the psychosocial with newer behavioural neuroscience perspectives. It provides a broad perspective of the multiple biological processes influenced by stressful events, the conditions that allow for either exacerbation or diminution of these stressor effects, and the pathological conditions that can emerge as a result of stressful events. Anisman systematically reviews the key research over the past 30 years and presents his insights in a lively, interesting pedagogical fashion to allow you to fully appreciate the diversity of the field of stress and its impact on our health. Key features include: A consideration of the value of numerous therapeutic strategies to diminish distress and stress-related pathologies. • An exploration of many new conceptual perspectives relevant to stress processes and pathology. • Information is presented in an easy-to-read manner with lots of pointers to the key concepts to remember. An Introduction to Stress and Health is an indispensable text for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in health psychology, stress, health and illness.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Is It a Reality or an Opinion?
In a recent episode of a television program, one of those that include the crime, the search for the bad guy, and then the trial, the defense's case was that the alleged perpetrator suffered from PTSD and as a result should not be found guilty. The prosecution lawyer, in cross-examining the expert witness, a psychiatrist, asks ‘How did you diagnose this illness?’. The psychiatrist replied that he did this ‘on the basis of several interviews to see whether the alleged perpetrator showed signs of PTSD’, to which the prosecutor replied with something like ‘So, I take it that you didn't perform any brain imaging analyses to see if there was disturbance in the brain, or ...
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