Environment, mood disorders and suicide / Teodor T. Postolache and Joav Merrick, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Postolache, Teodor T.

Merrick, Joav, 1950-

Series:

Health and human development series.

Health and human development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affective disorders--Environmental aspects.

Affective disorders.

Suicide--Environmental aspects.

Suicide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We live in a time when the environment makes headlines, especially in association with global climate change and the potential human impact on the planet. It is remarkable that even now, with the environment becoming an important issue in world politics, we still do not really know how or to what extent our environment interacts with our brain and overall physiology. The environment is intricately and, from a research standpoint, hopelessly, multifactorial. The effects of global climate change may be readily seen not only in the thermoregulatory response to temperature fluctuation. This book discusses the environment and its influence on mood disorders and suicide from a scientific perspective.

Contents:

section 1. The physico-chemical environment

section 2. The environment of the body

section 3. The temporal environment

section 4. The perinatal hormonal-immune environment

section 5. The biological environment

section 6. The social environment : correctional setting

section 7. The cultural environment

section 8. The work place : a comprehensive environmental perspective

section 9. The electrical environment of the brain

section 10. The "environment of the mind"

section 11. The hospital environment

section 12. Conclusion : policy, research and clinical considerations

section 13. Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

1-62618-340-6

OCLC:

834604425