Stress: Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pathology: Handbook of Stress Series, Volume 3

Stress impacts the daily lives of humans and all species on Earth. Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pathology, the third volume of the Handbook of Stress series, covers stress-related or induced physiology, biochemistry, and pathology. Integrated closely with new behavioral findings and relevance to human conditions, the concepts and data in this volume offer readers cutting-edge information on the physiology of stress. A sequel to Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Stress (2000 and 2007), this Handbook of Stress series covers the many significant advances made since then and comprises self-contained volumes that each focus on a specific area within the field of stress. Targeted at scientific and clinical researchers in neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, biomedicine, endocrinology, psychology, psychiatry, the social sciences, and stress and its management in the workplace, this volume and series are ideal for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty interested in stress and its consequences.

Chapters offer impressive scope, with topics addressing stress-related or induced physiology, biochemistry, and pathologyArticles carefully selected by eminent stress researchers and prepared by contributors representing outstanding scholarship in the field, with each chapter fully vetted for reliable expert knowledgeRichly illustrated with explanatory figures and tablesEach chapter has a boxed “Key points” call out sectionThe volume is fully indexedAll chapters are electronically available via ScienceDirectAffordably 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

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