Cardiovascular Reactivity And Stress: Patterns Of Physiological Response (the Springer Series In Behavioral Psychophysiology And Medicine)

"This book is an articulate, concise, contemporary introduction to the study of important variables underlying cardiovascular reactivity. Its strength is in the combination of a scholarly but nonpedantic approach to cardiovascular psychophysiology and a solid understanding of beƯ havioral medicine approaches to the study of hypertension. The topics covered are central to the study of relationships between behavior and cardiovascular reactivity; the list of suggested readings at the end of each chapter provides excellent guidance for more detailed study of specific issues. It has now been more than a dozen years since Plenum Press published Paul Obrist's seminal monograph Cardiovascular PsychoƯ physiology. The volume had a major impact in relating cardiovascular regulation to behaving individuals and in developing thoughtful hyƯ potheses concerning such factors as they might pertain to hypertension. The impact of that work extended across scientific disciplines as well as aross continents. At the time the Obrist book was published, a young psychologist, J. Rick Turner, was completing his Ph. D. thesis in psycholƯ ogy at the University of Birmingham, England, on heart rate reactions to psychological challenge. After continued collaboration for the next several years with his former Ph. D. mentor, Douglas Carroll, Turner joined the Obrist laboratory at the University of North Carolina. AlƯ though Obrist unfortunately died during Turner's tenure in the laboraƯ tory, collaboration continued with Kathleen Light and Andrew SherƯ wood. The enlightened legacy of the North Carolina laboratory can clearly be seen in this text"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Cardiovascular Reactivity and Stress: Introduction and Overview....Pages 3-11 The Nervous, Endocrine, and Cardiovascular Systems....Pages 13-35 Modeling Stress and Assessing Reactivity in the Laboratory....Pages 37-55 Hypertension: The Disease and the Possible Influence of Stress Responses in Its Development....Pages 57-67 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Individual Differences in Cardiovascular Reactivity....Pages 71-89 Cardiac-Metabolic Dissociation: Additional Heart Rates during Psychological Stress....Pages 91-107 Genetic Determinants of Individual Differences in Cardiovascular Reactivity....Pages 109-127 Constitutional, Renal, and Personality Factors as Contributors to Individual Differences in Reactivity....Pages 129-149 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Laboratory-Field Generalization of Cardiovascular Activity....Pages 153-171 The Risk Identification Protocol....Pages 173-185 Other Areas of Cardiovascular Reactivity and Behavioral Medicine Research and Some Final Thoughts....Pages 187-208 Back Matter....Pages 209-236 This volume introduces and critically examines the major experiments exploring hypertension, and places them within a behavioral/psychosomatic framework. The balanced treatment and extensive referencing will prove invaluable for students, psychologists and others interested in individual differences, clinicians, and health educators