Stress and Your Body

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

• By This Professor
• 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