Stress and Your Body

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Free Online Course: Stress and Your Body provided by The Great Courses Plus is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 12 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.

Overview
  • Discover how stress is negatively affecting your health and learn new strategies to minimize its impact in this course taught by a Macarthur "Genius."

    Topics Covered:

    • By This Professor
    • 01: Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers? Why Do We?
    • 02: The Nuts and Bolts of the Stress-Response
    • 03: Stress and Your Heart
    • 04: Stress, Metabolism, and Liquidating Your Assets
    • 05: Stress, Overeating, and Your Digestive Tract
    • 06: Stress and Growth-Echoes from the Womb
    • 07: Stress, Growth, and Child Development
    • 08: Stress and Female Reproduction
    • 09: Stress and Male Reproduction
    • 10: Stress and Your Immune System
    • 11: Stress and Cancer
    • 12: Stress and Pain
    • 13: Stress, Learning, and Memory
    • 14: Stress, Judgment, and Impulse Control
    • 15: Stress, Sleep, and Lack of Sleep
    • 16: Stress and Aging
    • 17: Understanding Psychological Stress
    • 18: Psychological Modulators of Stress
    • 19: Stress and the Biology of Depression
    • 20: Stress and the Psychology of Depression
    • 21: Anxiety, Hostility, Repression, and Reward
    • 22: Stress, Health, and Low Social Status
    • 23: Stress Management-Clues to Success?