Allostasis and allostatic load/External Links
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- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health: Allostatic Load and Allostasis
- Summary prepared by Bruce McEwen and Teresa Seeman in collaboration with the Allostatic Load Working Group. Last revised 1999.
- Chapter Contents:
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- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health: Allostatic Load and Allostasis Notebook
- Table of Contents
- Allostatic Load and Allostasis
- Antibody Response to an Antigenic Challenge
- Body Composition
- Cardiovascular Measures of Allostatic Load
- Catecholamines and Environmental Stress
- Central Body Fat
- Decrease in Cell-mediated Immunity - A Marker for Allostatic Load Effects on Immune Function
- Dietary Factors and SES
- Fibrinogen is a Candidate Measure of Allostatic Load
- Heart Rate Variability
- Memory Function and Hippocampal Formation Volume
- Modes of Cardiac Control
- Muscle Tension
- Parasympathetic Function
- Salivary Cortisol Measurement and Challenge Tests
- Sleep Quantity and Endocrine Markers of Sleep Quality
- Vital Exhaustion - A Syndrome of Psychological Distress
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- Wear and tear are caused not only by changes in function but also by repeated fluctuations of various physiological systems and/or long-term exposure to elevated levels of physiological activity.
- Homeostasis: emphasis is on steady state and optimal set points.
- Allostasis: emphsis is on optimal operating ranges of physiological systems.
- Effects of cumulative effects of stress on health and longevity.
- Allostatic Load: stability through change represents the cumulative, multi-system view of physiological toll that may be exacted on the body through attempts at adaptation.
- An organism must vary all parameters of its internal milieu and match them appropriately to environmental demands.
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- John Hawks Weblog: paleoanthropology, genetics, and evolution
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- Psychosocial Risk Factors and Allostatic Load
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