The COVID-19 pandemic confronts stress researchers in psychology and neuroscience with
unique challenges. Widely used experimental paradigms such as the Trier Social Stress …

Enhanced susceptibility to inflammatory and autoimmune disease can be related to
impairments in HPA axis activity and associated hypocortisolism, or to glucocorticoid …

Mast cells are well known for their role in allergic and anaphylactic reactions, as well as their
involvement in acquired and innate immunity. Increasing evidence now implicates mast cells …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and neurodegenerative demyelinating disease of
the central nervous system (CNS), most likely autoimmune in origin, usually beginning in …

Objective: To explore the inflammatory processes in the pathogenesis of psychiatric
symptoms and the prognostic value of psychiatric comorbidities in multiple sclerosis (MS) …

Mast cells are well known for their involvement in allergic and anaphylactic reactions, during
which immunoglobulin E (IgE) receptor (FcɛRI) aggregation leads to exocytosis of the …

For many years, anecdotal evidence and clinical observations have suggested that
exposure to psychosocial stress can affect disease outcomes in immune-related disorders …

Stress is defined as a state of threatened homeostasis. The principal effectors of the stress
system include corticotropin-releasing hormone, arginine vasopressin, the glucocorticoids …

Background: Stress has been considered a triggering factor for multiple sclerosis (MS) since
the description of the disease by Jean-Martin Charcot. Until our times, many published …

Objectives: This trial examined the efficacy of a stress management program in reducing
neuroimaging markers of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease activity. Methods: A total of 121 …