Preface
Bruce S. McEwen
Pages: v-vi

Synthesis, Storage, and Secretion of Adrenal Medullary Hormones: Physiology and Pathophysiology
James B. Young, Lewis Landsberg
Pages: 3-19

Sympathetic Nervous System Physiology and Pathophysiology in Coping with the Environment
David S. Goldstein, Graeme Eisenhofer
Pages: 21-43

Catecholamines in the Brain and Responses to Environmental Challenges
David S. Goldstein, Karel Pacak
Pages: 45-60

Actions of Corticotropin on the Adrenal Cortex: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Peter F. Hall
Pages: 61-84

Proopiomelanocortin Synthesis and Cell-Specific Processing
Richard E. Mains, Betty A. Eipper
Pages: 85-101

Regulation and Actions of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone
Stacie C. Weninger, Joseph A. Majzoub
Pages: 103-124

Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in Brain: Executive Gating of Neuroendocrine and Functional Outflow
Stephen C. Heinrichs, Errol B. De Souza
Pages: 125-137

Coping with Danger: The Neural Basis of Defensive Behavior and Fearful Feelings
Kevin S. Labar, Joseph E. Ledoux
Pages: 139-154

Neurobiology of Interpreting and Responding to Stressful Events: Paradigmatic Role of the Hippocampus
Bruce S. McEwen
Pages: 155-178

Chronic Stress and Energy Balance: Role of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis
Mary F. Dallman, Seema Bhatnagar
Pages: 179-210

Adrenocortical Responses to Stress and Their Modulation in Free-Living Vertebrates
John C. Wingfield, L. Michael Romero
Pages: 211-234

Development of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and the Stress Response
Claire-Dominique Walker, K.J.S. Anand, PAUL M. Plotsky
Pages: 237-270

Development of Individual Differences in Behavioral and Endocrine Responses to Stress: Role of the Postnatal Environment
Christian Caldji, Dong Liu, Shakti Sharma, Josie Diorio, Darlene Francis, Michael J. Meaney, Paul M. Plotsky
Pages: 271-292

Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid Actions in Stress and Brain Aging
Nada M. Porter, James P. Herman, Philip W. Landfield
Pages: 293-309

Roles of Sleep-Wake and Dark-Light Cycles in the Control of Endocrine, Metabolic, Cardiovascular, and Cognitive Function
Eve Van Cauter, Fred W. Turek
Pages: 313-330

Hormones, Cytokines, and Sleep
Ferenc Obál, James M. Krueger
Pages: 331-349

Regional Neural Regulation of Immunity: Anatomy and Function
Karen Bulloch
Pages: 353-379

Role of Endogenous Glucocorticoids in Immune System Function: Regulation and Counterregulation
Robert L. Spencer, Brian A. Kalman, Firdaus S. Dhabhar
Pages: 381-423

Interactions Between the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Immune System During Viral Infection: Pathways for Environmental Effects on Disease Expression
Andrew H. Miller, Bradley D. Pearce, Melanie C. Ruzek, Christine A. Biron
Pages: 425-450

Regulation of Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases
Kennichi Dowdell, Caroline Whitacre
Pages: 451-467

Immunophysiology: The Interaction of Hormones, Lymphohemopoietic Cytokines, and the Neuroimmune Axis
Sean Arkins, Rodney W. Johnson, Christian Minshall, Robert Dantzer, Keith W. Kelley
Pages: 469-495

Environmental Factors and Disease: Stress and Cancer
Melissa K. Demetrikopoulos, Jay M. Weiss, Ronald H. Goldfarb
Pages: 497-514

Physiological and Pathophysiological Implications of Social Stress in Mammals
Robert M. Sapolsky
Pages: 517-532

Social Ordering and Health
Marilee Coriell, Nancy E. Adler
Pages: 533-546