Biological Measures of Well-Being

Biological Measures of Well-Being is organized into four distinct sections that together examine the interlink between physical and emotional well-being. The first section introduces the reader to the correlation among well-being with the environment, economic status, and biological measures. The second section outlines the blood and body fluids as biological correlates of well-being. The third section reviews physiology and imaging as biological correlates of well-being. The fourth discusses the genetic correlations of well-being. Written by international experts in the field, this book will be the single source researchers and clinicians will need to understand well-being and its interlink with biological measures. - Reviews well-being and quality-of-life among youth and in the school environment - Outlines a range of bodily fluid biomarkers and links with quality-of-life measures and well-being - Discusses different ways of interventions and modifiers of well-being, and their impact on other physiological measures - Reviews genetic links to quality-of-life and well-being

Section 1: Introductory chapters, correlates and setting the scene1. Biopsychosocial aspects of mental health: A focus on the school environment2. Mental well-being and the use of social media3. Well-being and quality of life among youth with a mental health4. The medical professions and their mental and physical well-being5. The bidirectional relationship of poor physical well-being and stressSection 2: Body fluids as biological correlates of well-being6. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in serum and measures of well-being7. Cortisol, well-being and the older person8. Endocannabinoid system, inflammation, and mental well-being9. Beta-endorphin and negative traits of well-being10. Positive psychological well-being and inflammatory biomarkers IL-6 and CRP: A narrative review11. Well-being and circulating serotoninSection 3: Physiology and imaging as biological correlates of well-being12. Use of electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate quality of life domains: Applications to epilepsy13. Non-invasive measures of acute mental stress14. Neuroscience of meditation for holistic well-being15. Physiological responses to acute and cumulative dance exposures16. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and well-being17. Neural processing of odors and measures of well-beingSection 4: Genetic correlates of well-being18. Meditation and the regulation of immune response genes19. Genes, polymorphisms and linkage with muscle strength and quality of life20. GWAS in occupational health: Unraveling gene-environment interactions, from discovery to the ethical frontiers of precision health21. Single nucleotide variants and their association with subjective well-beingSection 5: Resources22. Recommended resources for the biological measures of well-being