The Science of Stress: Living Under Pressure

A comprehensive examination of stress from three prominent neuropsychiatrists (The Boston Globe).

Jobs and families.

Deluges of digital communication.

The constant demands on our time and money.

The screaming match of politics and the threat of terrorism and war.

There’s no doubt we’re stressed out—but what exactly is it doing to us? Neuropsychiatrists Gregory L.

Fricchione, Ana Ivkovic, and Albert Yeung gently remind us in this book that persistent stress is directly linked to chronic ailments like heart disease, diabetes, and depression, contributing to one of the biggest health challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century.