Few of us will succumb to cholera, smallpox or scarlet fever. Instead, we die from diseases of Westernized lifestyle, which are often dis­eases worsened by stress. When the stress-response is mobilized by the body because of a typical mammalian stressor (e.g., a sprint from a predator), it is highly adaptive. However, when activated in the classic manner of Westernized humans (i.e., chronic psychoso­cial stress), it is pathogenic. The presentation will consider this dichotomy, as well as new directions of research needed for under­standing the neurobiology of stress and stress management.

• Dialogue 13
  16 sessions
• November 8, 2005
  Dar Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
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