ANTH 572J - Stress and Health

Examines circadian variation in endocrinological and physiological risk factors and their response to chronic disease development. Topics include human biological responses to diurnal and environmental changes in urban and rural settings, biological mechanisms of adaptation to the stresses inherent in human lifestyles, and determining the differences between adaptive and pathological biological responses to stressful life situations. Techniques of ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate monitoring and field measures of stress and reproductive hormones are demonstrated. Offered every year. Variable credit.