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DVD

Stress and your body.

Call Number

  • DVD 616.98 S9158 (CEN)

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Performers

Taught by Professor Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University.

Publication Information

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, c2010.

Physical Description

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 93 p. : ill ; 19 cm.).

Notes

"Course no. 1585"--Disc label.

Contains 24 lectures, 30 min. per lecture.

Contents

  • Disc 1. Why don't zebras get ulcers?
  • The nuts and bolts of the stress-response
  • Stress and your heart
  • Stress, metabolism, and liquidating your assets
  • Stress, overeating, and your digestive tract
  • Stress and growth : echoes from the womb.
  • Disc 2. Stress, growth, and child development
  • Stress and female reproduction
  • Stress and male reproduction
  • Stress and your immune system
  • Stress and cancer
  • Stress and pain.
  • Disc 3. Stress, learning, and memory
  • Stress, judgment, and impulse control
  • Stress, sleep, and lack of sleep
  • Stress and aging
  • Understanding psychological stress
  • Psychological modulators of stress.
  • Disc 4. Stress and the biology of depression
  • Stress and the psychology of depression
  • Anxiety, hostility, repression, and reward
  • Stress, health, and low social status
  • Stress management : clues to success?
  • Stress management : approaches and cautions.

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