xv, 280 pages ; 23 cm.

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What this book is about -- What do we mean when we talk about stressors? -- The characteristics of stressors: comparing apples, oranges, and lemons -- Chronic stressors and allostatic overload -- Before you go... -- Vulnerability and resilience -- Genetic influences -- Age -- Sex -- Personality diff...

Before you go... -- What's a hormone? -- Linking hormones and behaviors -- The hormonal stress response -- Hormones of the autonomic nervous system -- The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and glucocorticoids -- What cortisol (corticosterone) does for us -- The cortisol/corticosterone respon...

The past influences the future -- Before you go... -- A brief look at how the immune system works -- Cells of the immune system -- Immune memories -- Cytokines: messenger molecules of the immune system -- Immune-hormone interactions -- Stress, brain processes, and immunological changes -- Cytokine c...

Type A personality -- Type D personality -- Physiological stress responses associated with heart disease -- Sympathetic nervous system reactivity -- Inflammatory processes in heart disease -- Stress, pathogen burden, and heart disease -- Obesity, cytokines, and heart disease -- Before you go... -- T...

Cognitive theories of depressive disorders -- Helplessness -- Hopelessness -- Depression from an evolutionary perspective -- Depression from a neurochemical vantage -- Neurobiological explanations of depressive disorders -- Serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine in relation -- to depressive disorder...

Neuroanatomical underpinnings of PTSD -- Biochemical determinants of PTSD -- CRH and corticoids in relation to PTSD-related memories -- Norepinephrine and serotonin and PTSD-related memories -- GABA and the extinction of fear responses in PTSD -- Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and resilience -- Before you go....

Mood changes associated with illness -- Adjustment to chronic illnesses: psychological resilience in the face of illness -- Stress associated with caregiving -- Loss and grief -- Before you go... -- Job-related distress -- Status and job strain -- Burnout -- Absenteeism and presenteeism -- Bullying...

Giving and receiving -- The social cure -- Before you go... -- Something about drug treatments -- Placebo and nocebo responses -- Selecting the right treatment and related caveats -- Treating depression -- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) -- A cocktail of acronyms: SNRI, NDRI, NaSSA,...