Perspectives on Behavioral Medicine
Neuroendocrine Control and Behavior
- 1st Edition - January 28, 1985
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Redford B. Williams
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 4 3 7 - 2
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 5 3 2 1 0 2 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 5 9 5 9 - 8
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Request a sales quotePerspectives on Behavioral Medicine, Volume 2: Neuroendocrine Control and Behavior provides a selective overview of important recent developments in the neurosciences related to neuroendocrine control mechanisms which have important implications for major areas of interest in behavioral medicine. The book begins with a general introductory chapter that presents a synthesis of related developments in the biomedicai and behavioral sciences which have played an important role in the emergence of the field of behavioral medicine, with particular emphasis on developments in behavioral biology concerned with neuroendocrine control. The remaining chapters are organized into two parts. Part I provides an introduction to recent developments concerning neuroendocrine control, as well as a consideration of general implications of such developments for the stress field. Part II shows how the integrative efforts of the first section might be applied toward improving our understanding of the role of behavioral and psychosocial factors in several specific illnesses.
Contributors
Preface
1 Toward a Conjunction of Biomedicai and Behavioral Sciences
The Burden of Illness
Collaboration
The Emergence of Behavioral Biology
Cardiovascular Diseases
Biobehavioral Science and Disease Prevention in Adolescence
Health and Behavior in Aging
Differential Susceptibility to Disease
A Model of Coping Behavior
Broadening the Spectrum of Health Research and Education
References
Part I Basic Mechanisms
2 Changing Concepts of Neuroendocrine Control
Introduction
Hypothalamic Hormones
Control of Hypophysiotropic Hormone Secretion
Chemical Messengers that are both Neurotransmitters and Hormones
Conclusions
References
3 Stress, Corticotropin-Releasing Factor, and Behavior
The Stress Response
Behavioral Effects of ACTH
Direct Neurotropic Actions of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor
Summary
References
4 Brain and Pituitary Cyclic Nucleotide Response to Stress
Introduction
Experiment I: Comparison of Responses to Forced Immobilization versus Cold Exposure
Experiment II: 15-Minute Immobilization
Experiment III: Effect of Locomotor Activity on Brain Regional Cyclic Nucleotides
Experiment IV: The Time Course of Cerebellar Cyclic GMP Response to Locomotor Activity
Discussion
Conclusions
References
5 Neuroendocrine Response Patterns and Stress: Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Disease
Introduction
Physiological Response Patterns and Behavioral Challenge
Pathophysiological Consequences of Neuroendocrine Responses to Stress
Neuroendocrine and Autonomic Responses as Determinants of Behavior
Implications for Treatment
Summary and Conclusions
References
6 Brain Mechanisms in Effects of Social Support on Viability
Effects of Social Relationships
Hypothalamic Mechanism
Amygdaloid Mediation
References
Part II Applied Psychoneuroendocrinology
7 The Biochemical Effects of Tactile Deprivation in Neonatal Rats
References
8 Biochemical Simulation of Anxiety Stress Employing Natural and Synthetic Corticoids: Influences on Neoplastic Processes
Introduction
Materials, Methods, and Assay Procedures
Results
Discussion
Summary
References
9 Behavioral Influences and Beta-Adrenergic Mechanisms: the Kidney and Sodium Retention
Introduction
Survey of Experiments
References
10 Type A Behavior: Mechanisms Linking Behavioral and Pathophysiological Processes
Psychological Stress and Coronary Heart Disease
Type A Behavior and Coronary Heart Disease
Pattern A as a Psychological Construct
Conclusions
References
11 Psychological and Endocrinological Correlates of Chronic Stress at Three Mile Island
Stress
Sources of Stress at Three Mile Island
Field Study of Chronic Stress at Three Mile Island
Evidence of Chronic Stress at Three Mile Island
Hormonal Correlates of Chronic Uncertainty
References
Author Index
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 1985
- No. of pages (eBook): 250
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483244372
- Hardback ISBN: 9780125321020
- eBook ISBN: 9781483259598
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