Various environmental stressors, such as extreme temperatures (hot and cold), pathogens,
predators and insufficient food, can threaten life. Remarkable progress has recently been …

The brain controls the heart directly through the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches
of the autonomic nervous system, which consists of multi-synaptic pathways from myocardial …

The mechanism by which psychological stress elicits various physiological responses is
unknown. We discovered a central master neural pathway in rats that drives autonomic and …

Stress is critically involved in the development and progression of disease. From the stress
of undergoing treatments to facing your own mortality, the physiological processes that …

Neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus (DMH) play key roles in physiological responses
to exteroceptive (“emotional”) stress in rats, including tachycardia. Tachycardia evoked from …

The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis is one of the body's neuroendocrine
networks that responds to psychological stress (PS). In the skin, there exists a peripheral …

Psychogenic fever is a stress-related, psychosomatic disease especially seen in young
women. Some patients develop extremely high core body temperature (Tc)(up to 41° C) …

Stress affects core body temperature (T c). Many kinds of stress induce transient,
monophasic hyperthermia, which diminishes gradually if the stressor is terminated. Stronger …

Intense stress and fear have long been known to give rise to a suppression of pain termed
“stress-induced analgesia”, mediated by brainstem pain-modulating circuitry, including pain …

Sympathetic premotor neurons in the rostral medullary raphe (RMR) regulate heat
conservation by tail artery vasoconstriction and brown adipose tissue thermogenesis. These …