International Perspectives on Self-Regulation and Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • A. Ronald Seifert, John G. Carlson

      Pages 1-13

3. Cardiovascular and Central Disorders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-16

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   2. Respiratory Mediation of Cardiac Function within a Psychophysiological Perspective

      • Paul Grossman

      Pages 17-39

   3. Environmental Stress and Myocardial Reactivity

      • Robert M. Kelsey, Edward S. Katkin

      Pages 41-63

   4. Self-Regulation of Slow Cortical Potentials and Its Role in Epileptogenesis

      • Thomas Elbert, Brigitte Rockstroh, Anthony Canavan, Niels Birbaumer, Werner Lutzenberger, Isolde von Bülow et al.

      Pages 65-94

   5. Low-Dimensional Chaos in a Simple Biological Model of Neocortex

      • James E. Skinner, Mirna Mitra, Keith Fulton

      Pages 95-117

4. Neuromuscular Disorders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-120

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   2. Control of Normal and Pathologic Cognitive Functions through Neuromuscular Circuits

      • F. J. McGuigan

      Pages 121-132

   3. Control of Convulsions by Inhibitory and Excitatory Neurotransmitter Receptor Regulators in Epileptic El Mice and Neuromuscular Junction-Blocked Rats

      • Akitane Mori, Isao Yokoi, Hideaki Kabuto, Midori Hiramatsu, Michael J. Kwon, Masakatsu Shimada et al.

      Pages 133-144

   4. Fluency Enhancement in Stutterers

      • Ronald L. Webster

      Pages 145-159

5. Psychoneuroimmunology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-162

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   2. Behavior in Autoimmune Mice

      • Robert Ader

      Pages 163-181

   3. Behavioral Intervention and Disease

      • Nicholas R. S. Hall, Robert Kvarnes

      Pages 183-195

   4. Altered Immunity through Behavioral Conditioning

      • Maurice G. King, Alan J. Husband

      Pages 197-204

6. Pain

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-206

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   2. Opioid Analgesia and Descending Systems of Pain Control

      • G. F. Gebhart

      Pages 207-221

   3. Gate Control Theory of Pain Perception

      • Wolfgang Larbig

      Pages 223-237

   4. Behavioral-Anatomical Studies of the Central Pathways Subserving Orofacial Pain

      • J. Peter Rosenfeld, James G. Broton

      Pages 239-254

   5. Neuropeptides and Nociception in the Spinal Cord

      • Masamichi Satoh

      Pages 255-266

An attractive feature of self-regulation therapies is that, instead of doing something to the patients, they teach them to do something for them­ selves. Furthermore, the fact that the patient is able to do something to cope with his or her health problem can produce a significant reduction in the stress that may have contributed to that problem and in the additional stress that it produces. While the idea that the mind can playa role in the health of the body and some therapeutic techniques based on this idea are not new, remarkable scientific advances have been made recently in the area of self-regulation and health. There has been an exciting and rapidly accel­ erating increase in our basic science knowledge of homeostasis, or, in other words, how the body regulates itself in order to maintain health. Technical and conceptual advances are increasing our knowledge of the details of such regulation at all levels-cells, tissues, organs, organ sys­ tems, and the body as a whole. We are learning how the competing demands of different elements at each of these levels are adjusted by the brain, which, with its neural and humoral mechanisms, is the supreme organ of integration of the body.

• Enhancement
• acupuncture
• brain
• cardiac function
• health
• homeostasis
• intervention
• neuropeptides
• neurotransmitter
• opioid
• patients
• peptides
• perception
• stress
• tissue

• Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

  John G. Carlson

• Behavioral Institute of Atlanta, Atlanta, USA

  A. Ronald Seifert

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