Wild Rose (Patterson Memorial)

Stress, portrait of a killer, director/producer/writer, John Heminway ; produced by National Geographic Television

eng

videorecording

10 & up

Stress

DVD

712803272

director/producer/writer, John Heminway ; produced by National Geographic Television

56

National Geographic special

portrait of a killer

Over the last three decades, science has been advancing the understanding of stress-how it impacts the human body and how social standing can make a person more or less susceptible. Through studies of baboons on the plains of Africa and research in the neuroscience labs of Stanford University, Robert Sapolsky and other scientists are discovering just how lethal stress can be. Understanding how stress works can help people figure out ways to combat it and how to live a life free of the tyranny of this contemporary plague. As this film shows, stress is not just a state of mind; it's something measurable and dangerous

Explanation of stress (1:57) -- Baboon social stress model (3:28) -- Stress response hormones (1:52) -- Psychological stress response (2:22) -- Social standing and stress hormones (2:38) -- Whitehall Study : link between stress and rank (4:12) -- Primate stress hormone observation (2:48) -- Are ulcers caused by stress? (2:47) -- Stress is arterial plaque (2:22) -- Stress's deadly curse (2:35) -- Social status and brain chemicals (1:36) -- Life expectancy and social status (1:28) -- Dangerous abdominal fat and stress (3:17) -- Dutch hunger winter phenomenon (4:00) -- Genetic effect of stress (3:51) -- Stress reduction for health (2:14) -- Primate stress reduction phenomenon (4:16) -- Stress in modern society (2:14) -- Stress reduction for life (2:13) -- What can baboons teach people? (2:04)

live action

Portrait of a killer