Selye – famous quotes
BrainImmune is paying tribute once again to the work and contributions of Hans Selye.
Stress research has been around for more than 80-90 years.
Two decades before Selye, the American physiologist Walter Cannon studied how animals cope with emergency conditions, and proposed the ‘emergency function’ theory of the adrenal medulla. In his 1915 book “Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement” Dr. Cannon coined the term ‘fight-or-flight’ response.
In 1919, Tohru Ishigami published an article entitled ‘The influence of psychic acts on the progress of pulmonary tuberculosis’ in the journal American Review of Tuberculosis. Ishigami was perhaps the first to address the contribution of ‘stress’, adrenaline and the ‘stress’-immunity interactions in tuberculosis.
In the 1930s, Hans Selye introduced the term ‘stress’ soon after his 1936 Nature magazine publication entitled “A syndrome produced by diverse nocuous agents”. Often this Nature study is linked to the birth of the stress concept, but in this article the expression ‘stress’, was substituted with ‘alarm reaction’, due to an editorial suggestion.
In 1946, however, in his publication: ‘The general adaptation syndrome and the diseases of adaptation’, published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hans Selye was the first to describe the ‘Stress Syndrome’ or the ‘General Adaptation Syndrome’.
In the 1940s and 1950s he attributed stress to the development of several diseases, and promoted ‘stress’ as “the major cause, mode of transmission and treatment of most human ills, be they mental or physical”.
BrainImmune is the first online resource covering stress-immune interactions, the interface of stress and immunity and the impact of stress on health and disease. We feature over 100 articles in this area, with more than 25 articles related to stress and cancer.
Selye Famous Quotes
“The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.”
“Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.”
“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”
“Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.”
“Stress is the spice of life.”
“The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.”
“Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?”
“To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.”
“To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.”
“Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy”.
“If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.”
“Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.”
“My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.”
Stress like relativity is a scientific concept, which has suffered from the mixed blessing of being too well known and too little understood – 1980
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