Mats Lekander (Professor of Health Professor of Health Psychology

The Inflamed Feeling

The Brain's Role in Immune Defence

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Produktbeschreibung

In 'The Inflamed Feeling' Mats Lekander explores the science behind how you perceive your own health, using visual illusions, personal experiences, placebo, hypochondriacs, and historical anecdotes. Placed against a backdrop of the latest psychoneuroimmunology, he explores why you might feel healthy or why you might feel sick

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780198863441
• ISBN-10: 0198863446
• Artikelnr.: 63410405

Autorenporträt

Mats Lekander is a professor of Psychoneuroimmunology at Stockholm University and of Health Psychology at Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden. He is co-director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, and a former director of the Stockholm Stress Center, a center of excellence for research on work, stress and health. He heads the Division of Psychoneuroimmunology at the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University. His central line of research focuses on the relation between inflammation, brain function and behavior, especially related to the sickness response. It is also investigated how humans through perceptual means can detect when others are sick and how such detection affects behavior and attitudes. Other lines of research focus on consequences of disturbed sleep and stress, and psychological treatment of related disorders

Inhaltsangabe

1: What does the brain know about the outside world
2: What does the brain know about the body
3: Our inner defence systems
4: The sickness response
5: Disgust and prejudice in disease defence
6: How do you rate your general health
7: Feeling sick and other emotions
8: Can you affect your perceived health?
9: How society affects our health
10: Perhaps its not that bad?