Adrenaline and the Inner World

This 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.