Stress & health : biological and psychological interactions / William R. Lovallo, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, University of Oklahoma.

Stress and health

Los Angeles : SAGE, [2016]

xxii, 329 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Third edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and indexes.

Psychosocial models of health and disease -- History of the concept of stress -- Homeostatic regulation : normal function and stress responses -- Physical and psychological stress -- Central nervous system integration of the psychological stress -- Response -- Stress and the endocrine system -- The immune system, stress, and behavior -- Helplessness, coping, and health -- Genes, stress, and behavior -- Individual differences in reactivity to stress -- Health implications of exaggerated and blunted stress -- Reactivity -- Behavior, stress, and health.