This book is an articulate, concise, contemporary introduction to the study of important variables underlying cardiovascular reactivity. It has now been more than a dozen years since Plenum Press published Paul Obrist's seminal monograph Cardiovascular Psycho physiology.
I: Orientation: Concepts, Systems, and Methods.- 1. Cardiovascular Reactivity and Stress: Introduction and Overview.- 2: The Nervous, Endocrine, and Cardiovascular Systems.- 3. Modeling Stress and Assessing Reactivity in the Laboratory.- 4. Hypertension: The Disease and the Possible Influence of Stress Responses in Its Development.- II. Laboratory Investigation of Cardiovascular Reactivity.- 5. Individual Differences in Cardiovascular Reactivity.- 6. Cardiac-Metabolic Dissociation: Additional Heart Rates during Psychological Stress.- 7. Genetic Determinants of Individual Differences in Cardiovascular Reactivity.- 8. Constitutional, Renal, and Personality Factors as Contributors to Individual Differences in Reactivity.- III. Everyday Reactivity and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease.- 9. Laboratory-Field Generalization of Cardiovascular Activity.- 10. The Risk Identification Protocol.- 11. Other Areas of Cardiovascular Reactivity and Behavioral Medicine Research and Some Final Thoughts.- References.