Presentations and Speakers at the Fifth International Congress on Stress includes:

•Social Ties and Health – Kristina Orth-Gomer

•Neuroendocrinology of Life Stress – Bartolome de la Torré

•Stress, Employment and Abuse of the Workers’ Compensation System: The California Experience – Gerald Trostler

•Disaster: Stress Effects on Primary Response Personnel with Respect to Prevention, Intervention (Gulf War, Hurricane Andrew) – Jeffrey Mitchell

•Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in U.S. Children – Miguel Mandoki

•The Biopsychosocial Approach to Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Douglas Drossman

•Patterns of Gastrointestinal Motility in Relation to Life Stress with Special Reference to the Small Intestine – David Wingate

•Aromatherapy: Effects of Fragrances on Mental Function – Hisanobu Sugano

•Are Stress Factors More Predictive of Blood Lipids Than Diet? – Lucio Sibilia

•The French Paradox: Application to the Dietary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease – Serge Renaud

•Will a Herring a Day Keep Stress Away? – Melvin Goldberg

•Cardioprotective Effects of Peanut and Monounsaturated Oils – Synnove Knutsen

•Diet, Cholesterol and Heart Disease: Epidemiological Illusion or Delusion? – Paul J. Rosch

•The Neurophysiology of Religious Experience – Jim Henry

•A New Stress Induced Testosterone Resistance Syndrome ? Diagnosis and Treatment Results in 400 Menopausal Males – Malcolm Carruthers

•Free Radicals and Premature Aging, Down’s Syndrome, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease: Clinical Implications for Arteriosclerosis – Russel Reiter

•Electromagnetic Fields and Their Modulation of Gene Expression: Implications for Cell Communication and Cancer – Ross Adey

•What Are Free Radicals and Why Are They Important? The Role of Iron, Melatonin and the Nitric Oxide System – Jerry Phillips

•New Medical Devices to Measure Stress – Eugenie Yumatov

•Manual (Tactile) Hypnosis: Stress Reduction Effects Without Verbalization – Vladimir Raikov

•Hans Selye Lecture: Work, Stress and Health – Lennart Levi