There's a whole new way to think about stress. Sure, some stress is inevitable, but being 'stressed out' isn't. In fact, we can learn to rechannel the powerful stress activators in our lives to make us even more effective. "Hamlet" spoke of 'suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.' These days we simply use the word 'stress' to ...
How are children who have experienced adversity able to function competently? Why do some children appear to be resilient? These fascinating, complex, and puzzling questions have been studied mostly from a behavioral and psychosocial perspective. Advances in neuroscience provide the opportunity to bring neurobiology to the study of resilience and ...
Written to appeal to a broad audience, "The Hostage Brain" reveals the most recent advances in brain research together with social and political implications that surround them. Richly illustrated with 70 color plates.
This unique volume provides fresh insights into the neuroendocrine systems that enable individuals to cope with their physical and social environments. Since the pioneering work of Claude Bernard and Walter Cannon on homeostasis and Hans Selye and John Mason on stress, there have been profound advances in biomedicine, and the regulation of gene ...
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