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. |
Contents
The Seed and the Soil 4 Cannons Canons 5 The Comfort Level | 29 |
Transformers 35 Vegging 35 Good Housekeeping 40 The | 45 |
The Fat above the Kidneys 57 On the Risk of Being a Physicians | 62 |
Adrenalines Effects on the Body 64 Neuronal Soda Pop 79 | 103 |
Cytokines 117 Sex 118 Leptin | 119 |
Distress | 141 |
The Nose of God 158 Stress Toons | 160 |
Darwin and Ethology 169 The Price of Complexity Is Eternal | 176 |
The MindBody Problem 182 Primary versus Secondary | 194 |
Tests for Dysautonomias | 207 |
Neurochemical Tests 220 Neuroimaging Tests | 222 |
Drugs and the Family | 235 |
Return of the Getaway Car 248 Allostatic Load for People Who Hate | 269 |
References | 293 |
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