[Stress and the body]

The paper deals with new data on the influence of stress on the neurophysiological, hematological, cardiological, hormonal and trophic processes occurring in the body of man and animals. Experimental emotional stresses which offer an opportunity to effectively explore systemic stressful reactions are described. It is shown that neurogenic stress plays the pathogenic role in the onset of blood disorders, in activation of the adrenergic system, and in disorders of the conduction system of the heart. Emphasis is laid on the processes of dystrophy and destruction in osseous and cartilaginous elements of the bones and joints. The author base the role of emotional stress (according to P. K. Anokhin) in the genesis of diseases of motion organs (osteochondrosis, arthrosis, parodontosis).