Goldstein, David S.

Adrenaline and the Inner World - An Introduction to Scientific Integrative Medicine : An Introduction to Scientific Integrative Medicine

Preface ix 1. The Inner World 1(29) The Seed and the Soil 4(1) Cannon's Canons 5(3) The Comfort Level in Building 10 8(4) An Amazing Cooking Experiment 12(2) Death by Football 14(2) The Sleeper Hold 16(2) Snakes That Faint? 18(3) Rules of the Game 21(6) Same Difference 27(2) The All-Day Sucker 29(1) 2. The "Automatic Nervous System" 30(27) Transformers 35(1) Vegging 35(5) Good Housekeeping 40(5) The Hot Line 45(1) How Does the Autonomic Nervous System Work? 45(12) 3. The Arbiters of the Inner World 57(49) The Fat above the Kidneys 57(1) On The Risk of Being a Physician's Son 58(1) What's in a Name? 59(3) Catecholamines Look Like Cats 62(2) Adrenaline's Effects on the Body 64(15) Neuronal Soda Pop 79(12) The Getaway Car Analogy 91(2) The Atavistic Catecholamine 93(2) "First I Secreted a Hell of a Lot of Adrenaline" 95(6) A Play-Doh Model of the Brain 101(2) The Nobel Chemicals 103(3) 4. The Rest of the Cast 106(15) The Axis Powers 107(3) The Water Works and Kosher Pickle Treatment 110(3) Salt Sense 113(2) Your Own Brand of Morphine 115(2) Cytokines 117(1) Sex 118(1) Leptin 119(2) 5. Stress as a Scientific Idea 121(20) A Brief History of Stress 121(8) Stress Response Patterns 129(12) 6. Distress 141(23) Characteristics of Distress 141(7) Biblical Lie Detection 148(2) Distress versus the General Adaptation Syndrome 150(1) Fight Isn't Flight 151(7) The Nose of God 158(2) StressToons 160(4) 7. Stress in Evolutionary Perspective 164(17) Why Evolution Is a Worthwhile Theory and Creationism Isn't 164(5) Darwin and Ethology 169(3) The Price of Complexity Is Eternal Stress 172(4) Primitive Specificity 176(5) 8. Dysautonomias 181(26) The "Mind-Body" Problem 182(2) Primary versus Secondary Dysautonomias 184(1) Secondary Dysautonomias 185(9) Primary Dysautonomias 194(13) 9. Tests for Dysautonomias 207(17) Physiological Tests 209(6) Neuropharmacological Tests 215(5) Neurochemical Tests 220(2) Neuroimaging Tests 222(2) 10. Treatments for Dysautonomias 224(11) Nondrug Treatments 224(5) Drug Treatments 229(6) 11. Drugs and the Family 235(12) Catecholamines as Drugs 235(1) Legal Addictions 236(4) Cocaine 240(1) Speed Kills 240(2) Morphine 242(1) Barbs and Benzos 242(1) You Aren't What You Eat, Luckily 243(4) 12. The Future: Scientific Integrative Medicine 247(22) Return of the Getaway Car 248(2) Allostatic Load for People Who Hate Snakes 250(4) The Dialectic 254(5) Darwinian Medicine 259(4) Tactics and Strategies of Scientific Integrative Medicine 263(3) What, How, and Why 266(3) Conclusion 269(2) Glossary 271(22) References 293(2) Index 295