Better you should try to untie the Gordian knot. However, my suggestion would be to start with The Handbook of Psychophysiology by Greenfield and Sternbach. The first edition I believe was 1972 but there have been subsequent editions. In there, you'll find a lot of the basics, but pay particular attention to the pioneering work of Marion Wenger and the concept of autonomic balance. good luck.
Once you've digested that, do a Medline search using the term, psychoneuroimmunology. That should pull up all kinds of arcane stuff. The best/earliest work was done at the University of Rochester (at the school of dentistry I believe). You could also dig up anything by Hans Selye, the Father of Stress (who himself had a heart attack after being investigate by the Canadian IRS - no causality implied).
The operative word in most of this research is mediation. Everything is affected by everything else. Physiologically, the one system that looked very promising for study was smell. Gary Schwartz was working on that at Yale in the late 80's and coming up with some interesting stuff. Don't know what became of his work. He may have sold out to Faberge ;-)
jbm
Replies:
|
| Behavior OnLine Home Page | Disclaimer |
Copyright © 1996-2004 Behavior OnLine, Inc. All rights reserved.