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Book SynopsisIn this book, editor Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett and an elite group of researchers explore the ways physical and psychological stressors such as poor sleep, PTSD, and depression, trigger the inflammatory response and increase the risk of disease.
Table of Contents Contributors
Foreword
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
Introduction
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
Part I: The Role of Inflammation in Disease Process
Chapter 1: An Overview of Stress and Immunity
Maureen Groër, Mary W. Meagher, and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
Chapter 2: Inflammation, Fatty Acid Oxidation, and Neurodegenerative Disease
Mary Nivison, Angela L. Guillozet-Bongaarts, and Thomas J. Montine
Chapter 3: Sleep and Inflammation: A Potential Link to Chronic Diseases
Edward C. Suarez and Harold Goforth
Chapter 4: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Inflammation, and Inflammatory Diseases
Philip C. Calder
Part II: The Link Between Stress, Inflammation, and Disease
Chapter 5: Depression, Hostility, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Inflammation: The Corrosive Health Effects of Negative Mental States
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
Chapter 6: Cognitive and Behavioral Reactions to Stress Among Adults With PTSD: Implications for Immunity and Health
Jeffrey L. Kibler, Kavita Joshi, and Erin E. Hughes
Chapter 7: Social Stress and Inflammation in the Exacerbation of Multiple Sclerosis: An Animal Model With Implications for Humans
Mary W. Meagher and C. Jane R. Welsh
Chapter 8: Allostasis: A Model for Women's Health
Maureen Groër and the Women's Health Research Group at the University of South Florida College of Nursing
Chapter 9: Treatments for Depression That Lower Inflammation: Additional Support for an Inflammatory Etiology of Depression
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
Epilogue: Inflammation and Chronic Disease: Clinical Implications and Future Directions
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
Index
About the Editor
