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Stress: Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pathology

Handbook of Stress Series, Volume 3

  • 1st Edition - January 12, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: George Fink
  • Language: English

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Description

Approx.406 pages

Key features

  • Chapters offer impressive scope, with topics addressing stress-related or induced physiology, biochemistry, and pathology
  • Articles carefully selected by eminent stress researchers and prepared by contributors representing outstanding scholarship in the field, with each chapter fully vetted for reliable expert knowledge
  • Richly illustrated with explanatory figures and tables
  • Each chapter has a boxed “Key points” call out section
  • The volume is fully indexed
  • All chapters are electronically available via ScienceDirect
  • Affordably priced, self-contained volume for readers specifically interested in the physiology, biochemistry and pathology of stress, avoiding the need to purchase the whole Handbook series

Readership

Neuroscientists, neuroendocrinologists, neurologists, neuropharmacologists, and researchers, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in neuroscience, psychology and the biomedical sciences

Table of contents

1. Autonomic Nervous System

2. Corticotropin releasing factor and the urocortins

3. Pro-opiomelanocortin

4. Arousal

5. Brain Regions involved in stress

6. Cerebral Metabolism, Brain Imaging and the stress response

7. Acute Stress Response: Experimental (including startle reflex)

8. Restraint Stress

9. Resilience

10. Stress-Hyporesponsive Period

11. Effects of Extreme High and Low Pressure

12. Avoidance

13. Stress and the Blood-Brain Barrier

14. Multi Drug Resistance P Glycoprotein and other Transporters

15. Glucose Transport, effects of glucocorticoids and adrenaline

16. Hippocampus and hippocampal neurons

17. Memory and Stress

18. Neurogenesis (including neural stem cells)

19. Glia or Neuroglia

20. Excitatory Amino Acids

21. Calcium-Dependent Neurotoxicity

22. GABA (Gamma Aminobutyric Acid) and stress

23. Dopamine, Central

24. Serotonin in Stress

25. Pheromones and stress

26. Instinct Theory

27. Drosophila Studies

28. Proteases in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotic Cell Organelles

29. Febrile Response

30. Thermal Stress

31. Chaperone Proteins and Chaperonopathies

32. Proteosome and autophagy

33. Oxidative Stress

34. Control of Food Intake and Stress

35. Gender differences in stress response

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 18, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editor

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George Fink

Dr. Fink is Honorary Professor in the University of Melbourne and Professorial Research Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Formerly, he was Scientific Director of the Mental Health Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Before returning to Melbourne in 2003, Dr. Fink was University Lecturer in Human Anatomy and Fellow in Physiology and Medicine at Brasenose College and the University of Oxford and served for nearly 20 years as CEO and Director of the UK Medical Research Council’s Brain Metabolism Unit in Edinburgh. He gained distinction through his seminal research discoveries in neuroendocrinology and psychopharmacology published in over 360 scientific papers. Dr. Fink served as President of the European Neuroendocrine Association. His distinctions include Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Biological Society, Fellow of the Physiological Society, and Honorary Member of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology. Fink was Honorary Professor in the University of Edinburgh, delivered the inaugural Geoffrey Harris Prize Lecture of the British Physiological Society, and the Wolfson Lecture. In 1979 he was awarded the Royal Society - Israel Academy Exchange Fellowship which enabled him to spend a research year at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel. In 2000 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. His membership of learned societies includes Emeritus member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Endocrine Society and the Genetics Society of America. Dr. Fink has edited several scientific books with Elsevier, including Stress Science: Neuroendocrinology (2009), Stress Consequences: Mental, Neuropsychological and Socioeconomic (2009), Stress of War, Conflict and Disaster (2010), the Handbook of Neuroendocrinology (2011), and most notably the 4-volume second edition of the Encyclopedia of Stress (2007) on which this new Handbook of Stress series is based. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Stress (2000) which was awarded the 2001 British Medical Association commendation for its contribution to Mental Health. The first volume of his Handbook of Stress series, entitled “Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior”, received the BMA High Commendation in the Health and Social Care category as one of the top titles in its discipline.
Affiliations and expertise
Professorial Research Fellow and Hon Professor, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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