Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Principles of Allostasis: Optimal Design, Predictive Regulation, Pathophysiology, and Rational Therapeutics
- 2 Protective and Damaging Effects of the Mediators of Stress and Adaptation: Allostasis and Allostatic Load
- 3 Merging of the Homeostat Theory with the Concept of Allostatic Load
- 4 Operationalizing Allostatic Load
- 5 Drug Addiction and Allostasis
- 6 Adaptive Fear, Allostasis, and the Pathology of Anxiety and Depression
- 7 A Chronobiological Perspective on Allostasis and Its Application to Shift Work
- 8 Allostatic Load and Life Cycles: Implications for Neuroendocrine Control Mechanisms
- Commentary: Viability as Opposed to Stability: An Evolutionary Perspective on Physiological Regulation
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Principles of Allostasis: Optimal Design, Predictive Regulation, Pathophysiology, and Rational Therapeutics
- 2 Protective and Damaging Effects of the Mediators of Stress and Adaptation: Allostasis and Allostatic Load
- 3 Merging of the Homeostat Theory with the Concept of Allostatic Load
- 4 Operationalizing Allostatic Load
- 5 Drug Addiction and Allostasis
- 6 Adaptive Fear, Allostasis, and the Pathology of Anxiety and Depression
- 7 A Chronobiological Perspective on Allostasis and Its Application to Shift Work
- 8 Allostatic Load and Life Cycles: Implications for Neuroendocrine Control Mechanisms
- Commentary: Viability as Opposed to Stability: An Evolutionary Perspective on Physiological Regulation
- Index
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- Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004