Robert M. Sapolsky

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (eBook, ePUB)

The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping (Third Edition)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most popular work, with over 225,000 copies in print

Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress.

As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear-and the ones that plague us now-are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage, such as heart disease and cancer. When we worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that an animal's does, but we do not resolve conflict in the same way-through fighting or fleeing. Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick.
Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humor and practical advice, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses. This new edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429935654
• Artikelnr.: 39945375

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Sapolsky

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers?
2. Glands, Gooseflesh, and Hormones
3. Stroke, Heart Attacks, and Voodoo Death
4. Stress, Metabolism, and Liquidating Your Assets
5. Ulcers, the Runs, and Hot Fudge Sundaes
6. Dwarfism and the Importance of Mothers
7. Sex and Reproduction
8. Immunity, Stress, and Disease
9. Stress and Pain
10. Stress and Memory
11. Stress and a Good Night's Sleep
12. Aging and Death
13. Why is Psychological Stress Stressful?
14. Stress and Depression
15. Personality, Temperament, and Their Stress-Related Consequences
16. Junkies, Adrenaline Junkies, and Pleasure
17. the View from the Bottom
18. Managing Stress
Notes
Index