Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior
Handbook of Stress Series, Volume 1

This first volume in the Handbook in Stress series focuses on general concepts important to stress biology and the complex relationship between human cognition, emotion, and the manifestation of stress. Appropriate for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students interested in stress and its consequences, as well as researchers and clinicians

George Fink (Edited by)

9780128009512

Hardback, published 1 April 2016

502 pages
27.6 x 21.5 x 3 cm, 1.69 kg

There are many books on Stress, but [this] covers a much wider variety of interesting topics than most - I'm enjoying reading it. Excellent choice of themes and authors. Good and tight editing. The Key Point boxes are very helpful. Of all the stresses that are described in the book - clearly one will never be a source of stress for [the reader] - Boredom! -- Professor David Copolov, OAM, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRANZCP, MPM, DPM, AO, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Major Campuses and Student Engagement, and Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Professorial Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

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.

Part 1: General Concepts 1. Stress, definitions, mechanisms and effects outlined: lessons from anxiety; 2. The Alarm Phase and the General Adaptation Syndrome:  Two Aspects of Selye’s Inconsistent Legacy; 3. Corticosteroid Receptor Balance Hypothesis: implications for stress adaptation and disease; 4. The Fight or Flight Response:  A Cornerstone of Stress Research; 5. Central role of the brain in stress and adaptation:  Allostasis, biological embedding and cumulative change; 6. Behavior, Overview; 7. Conservation of Resources Theory Applied to Major Stress; 8. Control and Stress; 9. Effort-Reward Imbalance Model; 10. Environmental Factors; 11. Evolutionary Origins and Functions of the Stress Response System; 12. Life Events Scale; 13. Psychological Stressors, Overview; 14. Remodeling of neuronal networks by stress; 15. Epigenetics, Stress and their potential impact on brain network function

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Cognitive behavioural therapy [MMJT1], Endocrinology [MJG], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM]