The skin offers an ideally suited, clinically relevant model for studying the crossroads
between peripheral and systemic responses to stress. A 'brain–skin connection'with local …

Perceived stress has long been allied with disturbances of the dynamic equilibrium
established between the nervous, endocrine and immune systems, thus triggering or …

Purpose/Objectives: To advance understanding of resilience as an innate resource and its
potential and relevance in the management of workplace stress for oncology nurses. Data …

Chapter 2 introduces and explains enduring philosophical problems encountered
throughout the history of psychology: Do humans have free will? What are the methods by …

In the 1970s several reports of drug resistance in fish pathogens from Japanese fish farms
linked antibiotic resistance to fish farming. In this report, the devastating effect of acquired …

This article compares and contrasts the terms burnout, professional compassion fatigue, and
secondary traumatic stress disorder as they relate to hospice and palliative care nurses …

The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual
characteristics of participants. Personal Relationships and Personal Networks takes this …

Exposure to acute physical and/or psychological stressors induces a cascade of
physiological changes collectively termed the stress response. The stress response is …

BACKGROUND: Surgery renders patients susceptible to life-threatening complications,
including infections, multiple organ failure, and presumably cancer metastases. Surgery …

Heat-shock protein concentrations in the blood increase after exposure to a variety of
stressors, including trauma and psychological stress. Although the physiological function of …