Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior

Dr. Fink is Honorary Professor in the University of Melbourne and Professorial Research Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Formerly, he was Scientific Director of the Mental Health Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Before returning to Melbourne in 2003, Dr. Fink was University Lecturer in Human Anatomy and Fellow in Physiology and Medicine at Brasenose College and the University of Oxford and served for nearly 20 years as CEO and Director of the UK Medical Research Council’s Brain Metabolism Unit in Edinburgh. He gained distinction through his seminal research discoveries in neuroendocrinology and psychopharmacology published in over 360 scientific papers. Dr. Fink served as President of the European Neuroendocrine Association. His distinctions include Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Biological Society, Fellow of the Physiological Society, and Honorary Member of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology. Fink was Honorary Professor in the University of Edinburgh, delivered the inaugural Geoffrey Harris Prize Lecture of the British Physiological Society, and the Wolfson Lecture. In 1979 he was awarded the Royal Society - Israel Academy Exchange Fellowship which enabled him to spend a research year at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel. In 2000 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. His membership of learned societies includes Emeritus member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Endocrine Society and the Genetics Society of America. Dr. Fink has edited several scientific books with Elsevier, including Stress Science: Neuroendocrinology (2009), Stress Consequences: Mental, Neuropsychological and Socioeconomic (2009), Stress of War, Conflict and Disaster (2010), the Handbook of Neuroendocrinology (2011), and most notably the 4-volume second edition of the Encyclopedia of Stress (2007) on which this new Handbook of Stress series is based. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Stress (2000) which was awarded the 2001 British Medical Association commendation for its contribution to Mental Health. The first volume of his Handbook of Stress series, entitled “Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior”, received the BMA High Commendation in the Health and Social Care category as one of the top titles in its discipline.

• Part 1: General Concepts1. Stress, definitions, mechanisms and effects outlined: lessons from anxiety; 2. The Alarm Phase and the General Adaptation Syndrome:  Two Aspects of Selye’s Inconsistent Legacy; 3. Corticosteroid Receptor Balance Hypothesis: implications for stress adaptation and disease; 4. The Fight or Flight Response:  A Cornerstone of Stress Research; 5. Central role of the brain in stress and adaptation:  Allostasis, biological embedding and cumulative change; 6. Behavior, Overview; 7. Conservation of Resources Theory Applied to Major Stress; 8. Control and Stress; 9. Effort-Reward Imbalance Model; 10. Environmental Factors; 11. Evolutionary Origins and Functions of the Stress Response System; 12. Life Events Scale; 13. Psychological Stressors, Overview; 14. Remodeling of neuronal networks by stress; 15. Epigenetics, Stress and their potential impact on brain network functionPart 2: Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior16. Cognition and Stress; 17. Stress, memory and memory impairment; 18. Effects of stress on learning and memory; 19. Trauma and Memory; 20. Stress, trauma and memory in PTSD; 21. Adolescent Cognitive Control; Brain Network Dynamics; 22. The behavioral, cognitive, and neural correlates of deficient biological reactions to acute psychological stress; 23. When the work is not enough: The sinister stress of boredom; 24. Anxiety Disorders; 25. The post-traumatic syndromes; 26. Distress; 27. Depersonalization: Systematic Assessment; 28. Emotional Inhibition; 29. Chronic stress, regulation of emotion and functional activity of the brain; 30. Neuroimaging and Emotion; 31. Rumination, Stress, and Emotion; 32. Suicide, Psychology of; 33. Suicide, Sociology of; 34. Cortisol Awakening Response; 35. Anger; 36. Aggressive behavior and social stress; 37. Fear and the Amygdala; 38. Aging and Psychological Stress; 39. Childbirth and Stress; 40. Stress Generation; 41. Caregivers, Stress and; 42. Fatigue and Stress; 43. Burnout; 44. Coping Process; 45. Combat Stress; 46. Survivor Guilt; 47. Refugees, Stress in Trauma; 48. Stress in Emergency Personnel; 49. Stress in Policing; 50. Peacekeeping; 51. Optimism, Pessimism, and Stress; 52. Chronic Pain and Perceived Stress; 53. Industrialized Societies; 54. Indigenous Societies; 55. Diet and Stress: Interactions with Emotions and Behavior; 56. Stretched Thin: Stress, In-role and Extra-role Behavior of Educators; 57. Stress and Coping in the Menopause; 58. Psychosomatic Medicine; 59. Religion, Stress and Superheroes; 60. Dental Stress

There are many books on Stress, but [this] covers a much wider variety of interesting topics than most - I'm enjoying reading it. Excellent choice of themes and authors. Good and tight editing. The Key Point boxes are very helpful. Of all the stresses that are described in the book - clearly one will never be a source of stress for [the reader] - Boredom! -- Professor David Copolov, OAM, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRANZCP, MPM, DPM, AO, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Major Campuses and Student Engagement, and Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Professorial Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health