Our group has proposed that in contrast to chronic stress that can have harmful effects, the
short-term (fight-or-flight) stress response (lasting for minutes to hours) is nature's …

Although the concept of stress has earned a bad reputation, it is important to recognize that
the adaptive purpose of a physiological stress response is to promote survival during fight or …

Exposures to adverse environments, both psychosocial and physicochemical, are prevalent
and consequential across a broad range of childhood populations. Such adversity …

Major life stressors, especially those involving interpersonal stress and social rejection, are
among the strongest proximal risk factors for depression. In this review, we propose a …

This Technical Report was retired November 2021. Advances in fields of inquiry as diverse
as neuroscience, molecular biology, genomics, developmental psychology, epidemiology …

Objective To determine the relationships between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
and mental health, chronic medical conditions, and social development among young …

Over the past decades evidence has accumulated clearly demonstrating a pivotal role for
the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and its neurotransmitters in regulating inflammation …

Document Reviewers: Luis Alcocer (Mexico), Christina Antza (Greece), Mustafa Arici
(Turkey), Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil), Adel Berbari (Lebanon), Luıs Bronze (Portugal), John …

Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people in the United States experience a disproportionate
burden of asthma and atopic dermatitis. The study of these disease disparities has focused …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading cause of death worldwide and
identification and therapeutic modulation of all its risk factors is necessary to ensure a lower …