Stress: The Brain-body Connection

Stress: The Brain-body Connection
ISBN-10
3805582951
ISBN-13
9783805582957
Series
Stress
Category
Medical
Pages
108
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Authors
Dirk Hellhammer, Juliane Hellhammer

Description

The prevention, diagnosis and treatment of stress-related disorders are major challenges across medical disciplines. Reasons include a missing covariance between the psychological and physiological stress response and a tremendous intra-individual complexity of disease-related factors, resulting in a broad inter-individual heterogeneity of pathogenetic mechanisms. This book introduces 'Neuropattern', a new concept that attempts to assess the activity of neuroendocrine interfaces participating in the communication between the brain and the body during stress. This approach allows close examination of the causal mechanisms behind stress-related disturbances and diseases, thus enabling individualized preventive and therapeutic interventions. This publication provides clinicians, researchers and students from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neurobiology and psychoendocrinology with an excellent overview of how knowledge from basic psychobiological research can be translated for the benefit of their patients.

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