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In Mind, Stress, & Emotions, author Gene Wallenstein explores the exciting new ways researchers are unraveling the secrets of mood. Once largely the providence of poets, philosophers, and psychologists, the study of emotions has become one of the most important and topical fields in the biological sciences, particularly neuroscience. This timely book examines exciting new discoveries into how our genetic, biological, and environmental conditions generate and shape our moods.
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What makes me who I am? Is it my genetic makeup? Is it the sum of all the things to which I have been exposed? It is widely accepted today that our personalities are shaped by the genes we inherit in combination with environmental influence on the expression of genetically based qualities. Unfortunately, the complicated interaction between these two broad classes of influence remains very poorly understood. Wallenstein provides a wonderfully lucid description of the problem and addresses many important issues in the development of mood, emotion, and personality. Writing in easy conversational prose, the author does not dumb down the science or pull any punches, but he makes the science accessible by defining technical terms up front. The text flows effortlessly from chapter to chapter as it explores the fascinating interrelationships among genetics, stress, immune function, and the body's internal clockworks in the ultimate (and ever-changing) determination of emotional state. This is definitely not a self-help book, but it will provide any interested reader with a fairly deep understanding of factors that shape who we are as individuals, and it gives a glimpse into the continuing development of mood disorder therapies. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; two-year technical program students. M. S. Grace Florida Institute of Technology
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Preface | p. 4 |
Autumn in Vermont | p. 5 |
1. Mood Genes | p. 15 |
2. Genes, Mood, and the Luck of the Draw | p. 34 |
3. Stress, Stress, STRESS...! | p. 43 |
4. Stress and the Brain | p. 57 |
5. The Broader Picture: Stress Influences | p. 76 |
6. Birth and Death of a Brain Cell | p. 85 |
7. Monoamine Theories of Mood | p. 96 |
8. Substance P and the Neurokinins | p. 114 |
9. The Immune System and Mood | p. 122 |
10. The Immune Response, Stress, and Mood | p. 147 |
11. The Neuroanatomy of Mood & Melancholy | p. 151 |
12. Pleasure, Pleasure, Pleasure...! | p. 170 |
13. Biological Rhythms and Mood | p. 177 |
14. New Vistas in our Understanding of Mood | p. 191 |
Notes | p. 206 |
Acknowledgments | p. 215 |
Index | p. 216 |