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Environmental Psychodermatology: Stress, Environment and Skin

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The skin is responsible for protecting internal organs from noxious substances, including toxic chemicals, ultraviolet radiation and repeated exposure to water. It is an important interface between man and environment and is a portal of entry for different hazardous agents. Environmental stressors refer to biological, physical and chemical constraints on the productivity of species and on the development of ecosystems. Everyday life is full of environmental stressors that can cause skin diseases. This chapter presents the interesting and complex correlation between stress, environment and skin diseases.

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  1. Centro Studi per la Ricerca Multidisciplinare e Rigenerativa, Università Degli Studi “G. Marconi”, Rome, Italy

    Katlein França MD, PhD

  2. Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

    Katlein França MD, PhD

  3. Instituto Universitario Italiano de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina

    Aparecida Porto França BS, PhD

  4. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Reginaldo de França MSc

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    Katlein França

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

    Mohammad Jafferany

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França, K., França, A.P., de França, R. (2017). Environmental Psychodermatology: Stress, Environment and Skin. In: França, K., Jafferany, M. (eds) Stress and Skin Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46352-0_5

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