11 citations
4 papers
Structured psychosocial stress and the US obesity epidemic
Rodrick Wallace, Deborah N. Wallace
We examine the accelerating 'obesity epidemic' in the US from the perspective of generalized language-of-thought arguments relating a cognitive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis…
Coronary heart disease, chronic inflammation, and pathogenic social hierarchy: a biological limit to possible reductions in morbidity and mortality
Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace, Robert G. Wallace
We suggest that a particular form of social hierarchy, which we characterize as 'pathogenic', can, from the earliest stages of life, exert a formal analog to evolutionary selection…
Systemic lupus erythematosus in African-American women: Cognitive physiological modules, autoimmune disease, and structured psychosocial stress
Rodrick Wallace
Examining elevated rates of systemic lupus erythematosus in African-American women from perspectives of immune cognition suggests the disease constitutes an internalized physiologi…
Structured psychosocial stress and therapeutic failure
Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace
Generalized language-of-thought arguments appropriate to interacting cognitive modules permit exploration of how disease states interact with medical treatment. The interpenetratin…