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Publisher Joseph Henry Press; 1st edition (October 15, 2002) Everyone thinks they know the meaning of the word "stress" but its precise definition remains elusive. Bruce McEwen is a distinguished Neuroscientist who has dedicated more than 30 years of his career to studying the effects of stress on the brains and hormones of animals and has summarized his work in this very readable book. Read More...

From CEREBRUM: THE DANA FORUM ON BRAIN SCIENCE
Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 2002, Pages 99-110
The Dana Foundation, New York

CEREBRUM: THE DANA FORUM ON BRAIN SCIENCE (ISSN 1524-6205) is published quarterly by The Dana Press.
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Worried Sick Excerpted from The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D., with Elizabeth N. Lasley. Co-published by The Dana Press and Joseph Henry Press. ©2002 by Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D., with Elizabeth N. Lasley. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. Read More...

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Publisher The Rockefeller University Press; (September 1998)
The Hostage Brain by Dr. Bruce McEwen of The Rockefeller University and Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., former New York Times writer, and published by The Rockefkeller University Press, reveals the latest brain research in prose for the layman and describes key discoveries together with the social and political implications that surround them. It is a story as immediate as the news headline yet as timeless as Homer's Odyssey. Heavily illustrated with 70 color plates by Lydia Kibiuk, medical illustrator and visiting lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Department of Art as Applied to Medicine.Read More...

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