ABSTRACT
As documented in the other chapters of this book, the 1980s has witnessed a stunning and accelerating rate of progress in research aimed at elucidating the role of hostility and anger in the etiology and course of coronary heart disease and other serious illnesses. To sustain this momentum it will be necessary to begin the process of integrating the research on hostility and disease with the growing corpus of basic research concerned with the neurochemistry of behavior (i.e., hostility/anger) and with the molecular biology underlying pathogenesis of the diseases associated with hostility and anger.
