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 …

The range of psychosocial stress factors/processes (eg, chronic stress, distress states,
coping, social adversity) were reviewed as they relate to immune variables in cancer along …

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 …

BACKGROUND Traumatology, or the field of traumatic stress studies, has become a
dominant focus of interest in the mental health fields only in the past decade. Yet the origin …

A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response Page 1 George S. Everly,
Jr. · Jeffrey M. Lating A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response …

▪ Abstract Dominance hierarchies exist in numerous social species, and rank in such
hierarchies can dramatically influence the quality of an individual's life. Rank can …

During the past 10-15 years, psychoneuroimmunology--the study of the interactions among
behavior, neural and endocrine function, and immune processes--has developed into a …

Today, the scientific community readily embraces the fact that stress and nutrition impact
every physiologic process in the body. At last, the specific mechanisms by which stress and …

Mammals live in social systems, which differ from species to species but are relatively
constant for any species, although some variation as a function of the ecological situation is …

Each of a series of three hepatitis B (Hep B) inoculations was given to 48 second-year
medical students on the 3rd day of a 3-day examination series to study the effect of …