Seminar Series 2: Lecture 1 - Prof Andrew Steptoe
How Stress Gets Under Your Skin: psychobiological studies of social status, stress and health
Key ideas:
- Psychosocial factors such as chronic life stresses, social environments and psychological factors may impact positively or inversely on health.
- Psychobiological processes such as neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, autonomic, immunological and other responses act as pathways through which biological changes occur related to external stresses, behaviours, etc.
- Psychobiological responses to everyday stressors affect health outcomes, with small biological responses to stress having a cumulative impact over the years of a person's life.
About the speaker
Professor Andrew Steptoe, British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology, University College London
He moved to St. George’s Hospital Medical School in 1977, becoming professor and chair of the Department in 1988, where he remained until his appointment in 2000 to UCL as British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology, a position he held until 2016. He was founding editor of the British Journal of Health Psychology, an associate editor of five international journals , and is on the editorial boards of seven other journals. Andrew directs the Psychobiology Group and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing research group at UCL.
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