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PDF pending restorationAllen, Roger J. – 1980
A report is given of research conducted to determine the relationship between the response of the human body to stress and the incidence of physical diseases. Seven areas of the nervous system were tested in the study: cardiovascular, electrodermal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, piloerectors, pupilomaetric, and respiratory. The results of the…
Descriptors: Disease Incidence, Human Body, Motor Reactions, Patterned Responses
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This study evaluated the efficacy of the undergraduate service program "Controlling Stress & Tension" at the University of Maryland in terms of improving the health status of participants across biomedical stress reactivity and psychometric variables. Six hundred fifty-three participants were compared to 264 control subjects for pre-…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Biomedicine, College Students, Desensitization
