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Why Zebra's Don't Get Alcers

Why Zebra's Don't Get Alcers

An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases

by Robert M. Sapolsky
Publication Date: 15/04/1998
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Using amusing anecdotes to present the scientific facts of stress, the author explains how the nervous system responds to stress and how stress can affect everything from digestion, circulation and cancer growth to sex, mood and aging. The new, updated version includes chapters on stress and poverty, stress and memory, stress and personality and how to cope with stress.
ISBN:
9780716732105
9780716732105
Category:
Psychology
Publication Date:
15-04-1998
Language:
English
Publisher:
W.H. Freeman & Company
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
2nd Edition
Dimensions (mm):
241.3x149.35x31.75mm
Weight:
0.49kg
Robert M. Sapolsky

Robert M. Sapolsky holds degrees from Harvard and Rockefeller Universities and is currently a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University and a Research Associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya.

He is the author of The Trouble with Testosterone, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (both finalists for the LA Times Book Award), and A Primate's Memoir. Sapolsky has contributed to Natural History, Discover, Men's Health, and Scientific American, and is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant.

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