Chapter 2: Glands, Gooseflesh, and Hormones

The brain sends messages to your body through the nerves that branch from your brain down your spine and out to the periphery of your body.

• The voluntary nervous system: you decide to move  a muscle and it happens – conscious

Chapter 4: Liquidating your assets

In cases of crisis (e.g. running away from a lion), your cardiovascular system kicks into high gear and is delivering oxygen and energy to your exercising muscles.

Where does the extra energy come from?

• By digestion, complex food matter

Chapter 8: Immunity, Stress, and Disease

Psychoneuroimmunologist: someone who studies the fact that what goes on in your head can affect how well your immune system functions

There is a strong link between the nervous system and the immune system

• Example: Give an animal a

Chapter 15: Personality, Temperament, and Their Stress-Related Consequences

People differ in their ways of modulating stress-responses with psychological variables:

• Style, temperament and personality determine whether you regularly perceive opportunities for control   or safety signals, whether you interpret ambiguous circumstances as implying good news or bad, whether you typically

Chapter 18: Managing stress

Consider the physiological studies of people carrying out dangerous, stressful tasks (e.g. parachuting). The studies show the same pattern: most people have stress-responses but a subset is physiologically unflustered.

Questions of this chapter: Who makes up that subset that can cope? How do they do it?