STRESS AND SKIN DISORDERS. BASIC AND CLINICAL ASPECTS

1. Psychoneuroimmunology of Stress and Psychodermatologic Disorders
2. Evaluating the Role of Stress in Skin Disease
3. Anxiety, Depression, and OCD: Understanding Common Psychiatric Conditions in the Dermatological Patient
4. Skin Aging and Stress
5. Environmental Psychodermatology: Stress, Environment and Skin
6. Itch and Stress
7. Scars and Stress
8. Skin Picking and the Role of Stress
9. The Role of Stress in Dermatitis Artefacta
10. Psychodermato-Oncology and Stress
11. The Role of Stress in Body Dysmorphic Disorder
12. Stress and Atopic Dermatitis
13. Vitiligo
14. Hyperhidrosis and Stress
15. Acne and Rosacea
16. Stress Related Hair Disorders
17. Seborrheic Dermatitis
18. Role of Stress in Urticaria Syndrome
19. Stress and Wound Healing
20. Herpes and Stress
21. Psoriasis
22. Stress Management Techniques in the “Stressed” Skin Disorder Patient

Dermatological conditions are intimately related to stress. Stress can affect, reveal or even exacerbate a number of skin disorders, including alopecia, seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, pruritus, herpes, lichen planus, rosacea and urticarial. On the other hand, the skin disease itself could induce a secondary stress for the patient, influencing his or her quality of life. There is increasing evidence that stress influences disease processes and contributes to inflammation through the modulating hypothalamicpituitary- adrenal axis – releasing neuropeptides, neurotrophins, lymphokines and other chemical mediators from nerve endings to dermal cells.
This is one of the first books published on this topic, focusing more on the basic science aspects of stress in dermatopathology (oxidants, antioxidants, and oxidative injury in dermatopathology, dermatopharmacology, and dermatotoxicology.) Most Psychodermatology texts adopt a practical approach to identify all types of Psychodermatology disorders, focusing on clinical treatment. This concise title offers a comprehensive and didactic approach to skin diseases caused or exacerbated by stress, as well as covers the immunology, role and effect of stress on skin disease, and quality of life in dermatology. In the current programs of medical residency in dermatology, little is taught about the relationship between stress and skin diseases and this book is an important tool for young dermatologists and psychodermatologists in training.

Features
Focuses on the basic scientific aspects of stress in dermatopathologyOffers a comprehensive and didactic approach of the skin diseases caused or exacerbated by stressAddresses the immunology, role and effect of stress on skin disease and quality of life in dermatology.

Authors
• Katlein França, MD, MSc. University of Miami. Miller School of Medicine. Miami, FL, USA
• Mohammad Jafferany, MD. Central Michigan University. Department of Psychiatry. Saginaw, MI, USA