Adrenaline and the Inner World: An Introduction to Scientific Integrative MedicineThis accessible work is the first in more than seventy-five years to discuss the many roles of adrenaline in regulating the "inner world" of the body. David S. Goldstein, an international authority and award-winning teacher, introduces new concepts concerning the nature of stress and distress across the body's regulatory systems. Discussing how the body's stress systems are coordinated, and how stress, by means of adrenaline, may affect the development, manifestations, and outcomes of chronic diseases, Goldstein challenges researchers and clinicians to use scientific integrative medicine to develop new ways to treat, prevent, and palliate disease. Goldstein explains why a former attorney general with Parkinson disease has a tendency to faint, why young astronauts in excellent physical shape cannot stand up when reexposed to Earth's gravity, why professional football players can collapse and die of heat shock during summer training camp, and why baseball players spit so much. Adrenaline and the Inner World is designed to supplement academic coursework in psychology, psychiatry, endocrinology, cardiology, complementary and alternative medicine, physiology, and biochemistry. It includes an extensive glossary. |
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... means , or , if you are British , cat - a - coal - AY- means ) . They are part of you . They have kept you alive and are keeping you alive now as you read this , just as they sustained your ancestors from the beginning of mammalian time ...
... means ) . The most famous member of this chemical family is adrenaline . It is so famous that in this book I refer to the catecholamines as the adrenaline family . Keep in mind , though , that , as in actual families that achieve fame ...
... means to detect early or even prevent such a catastrophic positive feedback loop . Even after symptoms of heart failure develop , judicious treatment with drugs that modulate norepineph- rine's effects could enhance survival ...
... means that the systems for reg- ulating temperature and for regulating humidity would interact . On a hot , muggy day , because of generation of heat by the dehumidifier , the air con- ditioner would be on more than if there were no ...
... means to regulate the temperature of their inner world via a negative feedback loop . As little as a 1 ° C increase in the water temperature will produce a loss of pigment , called bleaching , and organismic death . In 1998 , reportedly ...
Contents
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Snakes That Faint? | 18 |
Distress versus the General Adaptation Syndrome | 150 |
Fight Isnt Flight | 151 |
The Nose of God | 158 |
StressToons | 160 |
Stress in Evolutionary Perspective | 164 |
Darwin and Ethology | 169 |
The Price of Complexity Is Eternal Stress | 172 |
Primitive Specificity | 176 |
Rules of the Game | 21 |
Same Difference | 27 |
The AllDay Sucker | 29 |
The Automatic Nervous System | 30 |
Transformers | 35 |
Good Housekeeping | 40 |
The Hot Line | 45 |
The Arbiters of the Inner World | 57 |
On the Risk of Being a Physicians Son | 58 |
Whats in a Name? | 59 |
Catecholamines Look Like Cats | 62 |
Adrenalines Effects on the Body | 64 |
Neuronal Soda Pop | 79 |
The Getaway Car Analogy | 91 |
The Atavistic Catecholamine | 93 |
First I Secreted a Hell of a Lot of Adrenaline | 95 |
A PlayDoh Model of the Brain | 101 |
The Nobel Chemicals | 103 |
The Rest of the Cast | 106 |
The Axis Powers | 107 |
The Water Works and Kosher Pickle Treatment | 110 |
Salt Sense | 113 |
Your Own Brand of Morphine | 115 |
Cytokines | 117 |
Sex | 118 |
Leptin | 119 |
Stress as a Scientific Idea | 121 |
Stress Response Patterns | 129 |
Distress | 141 |
Biblical Lie Detection | 148 |
Dysautonomias | 181 |
The MindBody Problem | 182 |
Primary versus Secondary Dysautonomias | 184 |
Secondary Dysautonomias | 185 |
Primary Dysautonomias | 194 |
Tests for Dysautonomias | 207 |
Physiological Tests | 209 |
Neuropharmacological Tests | 215 |
Neurochemical Tests | 220 |
Neuroimaging Tests | 222 |
Treatments for Dysautonomias | 224 |
Drug Treatments | 229 |
Drugs and the Family | 235 |
Legal Addictions | 236 |
Cocaine | 240 |
Morphine | 242 |
You Arent What You Eat Luckily | 243 |
The Future Scientific Integrative Medicine | 247 |
Return of the Getaway Car | 248 |
Allostatic Load for People Who Hate Snakes | 250 |
The Dialectic | 254 |
Darwinian Medicine | 259 |
Tactics and Strategies of Scientific Integrative Medicine | 263 |
What How and Why | 266 |
Conclusion | 269 |
Glossary | 271 |
References | 293 |
Index | 295 |
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