Why Zebras Dont Get Ulcers An Updated Guide To Stress Stress Related Diseases And Coping 3rd Edition 3rd Robert M Sapolsky by Robert M. Sapolsky 9780716732105, 9780760722145, 9780805073690, 0716732106, 0760722145, 0805073698 instant download after payment.

[In the "Zebra Book," Sapolsky begins] by trying to clarify the meaning of the nebulous concept of stress and to teach, with a minimum of pain, how various hormones and parts of the brain are mobilized in response to stress. I then focuson the links between stress and increased risk for certain types of disease, going, chapter by chapter, through the effects of stress on the circulatory system, on energy storage, on growth, reproduction, the immune system, and so on. 

Next I describe how the aging process may be influenced by the amount of stress experienced over a lifetime. I then examine the link between stress and the most common and arguably most crippling of psychiatric disorders, major depression. As part of updating the material for this third edition, I have added two new chapters: one on the interactions between stress and sleep, and one on what stress has to do with addiction. In addition, of the chapters that appeared in the previous edition, I rewrote about a third to half of the material.