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Stress and Your Body

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Discover how stress is negatively affecting your health and learn new strategies to minimize its impact in this course taught by a Macarthur “Genius.”

Syllabus

  • 01: Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers? Why Do We?
  • 02: The Nuts and Bolts of the Stress-Response
  • 03: Stress and Your Heart
  • 04: Stress, Metabolism, and Liquidating Your Assets
  • 05: Stress, Overeating, and Your Digestive Tract
  • 06: Stress and Growth-Echoes from the Womb
  • 07: Stress, Growth, and Child Development
  • 08: Stress and Female Reproduction
  • 09: Stress and Male Reproduction
  • 10: Stress and Your Immune System
  • 11: Stress and Cancer
  • 12: Stress and Pain
  • 13: Stress, Learning, and Memory
  • 14: Stress, Judgment, and Impulse Control
  • 15: Stress, Sleep, and Lack of Sleep
  • 16: Stress and Aging
  • 17: Understanding Psychological Stress
  • 18: Psychological Modulators of Stress
  • 19: Stress and the Biology of Depression
  • 20: Stress and the Psychology of Depression
  • 21: Anxiety, Hostility, Repression, and Reward
  • 22: Stress, Health, and Low Social Status
  • 23: Stress Management-Clues to Success?
  • 24: Stress Management-Approaches and Cautions
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Robert Sapolsky

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