Background Hair cortisol analysis is increasingly being appreciated and applied in both research and medicine, aiding endocrinologists with diagnosis. Content We provide an …
MC Black - American journal of lifestyle medicine, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Nearly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 13 men experience intimate partner violence (IPV) at some time in their life. V ictims of IPV suffer significant negative health consequences because of …
BS McEwen - New England journal of medicine, 1998 - Mass Medical Soc
Over 60 years ago, Selye1 recognized the paradox that the physiologic systems activated by stress can not only protect and restore but also damage the body. What links these …
SES is consistently associated with health outcomes, yet little is known about the psychosocial and behavioral mechanisms that might explain this association. Researchers …
OC Eller-Smith, AL Nicol… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Centralized pain syndromes are associated with changes within the central nervous system that amplify peripheral input and/or generate the perception of pain in the absence of a …
Childhood trauma is a potent risk factor for developing depression in adulthood, particularly in response to additional stress. We here summarize results from a series of clinical studies …
BS McEwen - Stress and the Brain, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
The primary hormonal mediators of the stress response, glucocorticoids and catecholamines, have both protective and damaging effects on the body. In the short run …
Representing a challenge for current concepts of stress research, a number of studies have now provided convincing evidence that the adrenal gland is hypoactive in some stress …