Stress and Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions, by William R. Lovallo, is a brief and accessible examination of psychological stress and its psychophysiological relationships with cognition, emotions, brain functions, and the peripheral mechanisms by which the body is regulated. Updated throughout, the Third Edition covers two new and significant areas of emerging research: how our early life experiences alter key stress responsive systems at the level of gene expression; and what large, normal, and small stress responses may mean for our overall health and well-being.

Psychosocial models of health and disease -- History of the concept of stress -- Homeostatic regulation : normal function and stress responses -- Physical and psychological stress -- Central nervous system integration of the psychological stress -- Response -- Stress and the endocrine system -- The immune system, stress, and behavior -- Helplessness, coping, and health -- Genes ,stress, and behavior -- Individual differences in reactivity to stress -- Health implications of exaggerated and blunted stress -- Reactivity -- Behavior, stress, and health.