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Author:   Detlev Ganten ,  Nicola A. Nikolov ,  K.V. Sudakov ,  Detlev Ganten
Publisher:   Gordon & Breach Science Publishers SA
Imprint:   Gordon & Breach Science Publishers SA
Volume:   vol 3
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9782881246999

ISBN 10:   2881246990
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   01 January 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Part 1 Susceptibility and resistance to emotional stress - central mechanisms: stability of physiological functions in emotional stress - neurochemical data; limbic mechanisms of emotional stress; substance P in central peptidergic mechanisms of resistance to emotional stress; behavioural, physiological and neurochemical changes induced by psychological stress in rats; effects of emotional stress on convulsions and brain monoamines in E1-mice; effect of psycho-emotional reactions on the mechanisms of self-regulation of inter-hemispheric relations during different information loading. Part 2 Emotional stress and psychosomatic disorders: effects of emotional stress on the immune system; blood changes during emotional stress; the interaction between stress and organ vulnerability in the development of serious medical disease; chronic emotional stress of limbicoreticular origin - ophthalmotonus changes; emotion, personality and stress as determinants of disease; lesions of gastric mucosa under the effect of acute emotional stress; role of hypophysis in the effect of emotional stress on cardiovascular and digestive functions. Part 3 Biobehavioural prevention and therapy of stress-induced disease: emotional self-regulation; effects of a breath relaxation training; coping with stress through social skills training; treating paralyzing phobic anxiety. Part 4 Coronary heart disease, hypertension and stress: stress-limiting systems and prevention of cardiac fibrillation; emotion, myocardial ischemia and cardiac arrhythmias in dog and monkey; behavioural and psychosocial characteristics in coronary heart disease; cadiovascular emotional conditioning in the baboon - do chronically repeated pressor episodes cause sustained elevations in blood pressure?; baroreceptor reflex inhibition as a mechanism for raising blood pressure under negative emotions; hemodynamic changes in immobilization stress; operant conditioning of the cardiovascular adjustments to exercise; the role of sodium in behavioural hypertension in animals; reactions of normotensives and hypertensives to stress - a psychological investigation.

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Professor Konstantin V. Sudakov is Director of the P.K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Moscow. Detlev Ganten is a professor at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Heidelberg. Nicola A. Nikolov is Professor of the Department of pathophysiology at the Medical and Biological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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