Events
-
25 October 2005
Seminar Series 2 Lecture 1 - Prof Andrew Steptoe
Location: Glasgow
Professor Andrew Steptoe, British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology, University College London: 'How Stress Gets Under Your Skin: psychobiological studies of social status, stress and health'
Key ideas:
- Psychosocial factors such as chronic life stresses, social environments and psychological factors may impact positively or inversely on health.
- Psychobiological processes such as neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, autonomic, immunological and other responses act as pathways through which biological changes occur related to external stresses, behaviours, etc.
- Psychobiological responses to everyday stressors affect health outcomes, with small biological responses to stress having a cumulative impact over the years of a person's life.