Stress and Health: From Molecules to Societies

Air date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 3:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Category: Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Description: Few Westernized humans are likely to die of scarlet fever, malaria or malnutrition. Instead, we live well enough and long enough to succumb to the diseases of slow degeneration. It is increasingly recognized that a large percentage of such diseases can be caused by or worsened by stress. This lecture approaches the subject of stress and health from two very different perspectives.
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Runtime: 01:10:29
NLM Title: Stress and health : from molecules to societies [electronic resource] / Robert Sapolsky.
Series: NIH director's Wednesday afternoon lecture series
Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher: [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2009]
Other Title(s): NIH director's Wednesday afternoon lecture series
Abstract: (CIT): Few Westernized humans are likely to die of scarlet fever, malaria or malnutrition. Instead, we live well enough and long enough to succumb to the diseases of slow degeneration. It is increasingly recognized that a large percentage of such diseases can be caused by or worsened by stress. This lecture approaches the subject of stress and health from two very different perspectives. To learn more about Dr. Sapolsky, visit wals.od.nih.gov/2009-2010/octo... The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide.
Subjects: Glucocorticoids--adverse effects
Hippocampus--physiopathology
Stress, Physiological--physiology
Stress, Psychological--physiopathology
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