International Perspectives On Self-regulation And Health (the Springer Series In Behavioral Psychophysiology And Medicine)

"An attractive feature of self-regulation therapies is that, instead of doing something to the patients, they teach them to do something for themƯ selves. Furthermore, the fact that the patient is able to do something to cope with his or her health problem can produce a significant reduction in the stress that may have contributed to that problem and in the additional stress that it produces. While the idea that the mind can playa role in the health of the body and some therapeutic techniques based on this idea are not new, remarkable scientific advances have been made recently in the area of self-regulation and health. There has been an exciting and rapidly accelƯ erating increase in our basic science knowledge of homeostasis, or, in other words, how the body regulates itself in order to maintain health. Technical and conceptual advances are increasing our knowledge of the details of such regulation at all levels-cells, tissues, organs, organ sysƯ tems, and the body as a whole. We are learning how the competing demands of different elements at each of these levels are adjusted by the brain, which, with its neural and humoral mechanisms, is the supreme organ of integration of the body"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Introduction....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-16 Respiratory Mediation of Cardiac Function within a Psychophysiological Perspective....Pages 17-39 Environmental Stress and Myocardial Reactivity....Pages 41-63 Self-Regulation of Slow Cortical Potentials and Its Role in Epileptogenesis....Pages 65-94 Low-Dimensional Chaos in a Simple Biological Model of Neocortex....Pages 95-117 Front Matter....Pages 119-120 Control of Normal and Pathologic Cognitive Functions through Neuromuscular Circuits....Pages 121-132 Control of Convulsions by Inhibitory and Excitatory Neurotransmitter Receptor Regulators in Epileptic El Mice and Neuromuscular Junction-Blocked Rats....Pages 133-144 Fluency Enhancement in Stutterers....Pages 145-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-162 Behavior in Autoimmune Mice....Pages 163-181 Behavioral Intervention and Disease....Pages 183-195 Altered Immunity through Behavioral Conditioning....Pages 197-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-206 Opioid Analgesia and Descending Systems of Pain Control....Pages 207-221 Gate Control Theory of Pain Perception....Pages 223-237 Behavioral-Anatomical Studies of the Central Pathways Subserving Orofacial Pain....Pages 239-254 Neuropeptides and Nociception in the Spinal Cord....Pages 255-266 Evidence for the Role of the Cerebral Cortex in Acupuncture Analgesia....Pages 267-280 Back Matter....Pages 281-291