Background Acute psychological stress activates the sympatho-adrenal medullary (SAM)
system and hypothalamo-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis. The relevance of this stress reactivity …

Stress, anxiety and depressive disorders are often characterized by the activation of the
stress axis, which results in similar symptoms at some point in these disorders. These …

Mostly known as “the stress hormone”, cortisol has many essential functions in humans due
to its involvement in regulation of blood pressure, immune system, metabolism of protein …

Objectives: This paper discusses the use of saliva analysis as a tool for monitoring steroid,
peptide, and immune markers of sports training. Design: Salivary gland physiology …

The steroid cortisol is an extensively studied and important variable in developmental and
other behavioral studies. Cortisol has been assayed by various methods using a range of …

Humans have been designed with a complex repertoire of metabolic machinery intended to
maintain normal homeostasis. This physiologic state of balance is susceptible to various …

Saliva is increasingly recognised as an attractive diagnostic fluid. The presence of various
disease signalling salivary biomarkers that accurately reflect normal and disease states in …

The proposed work involves the development of an autonomous, label-free electrochemical
sensor for real-time monitoring of cortisol levels expressed naturally in sub-microliter sweat …

While much attention has been devoted to examining the beneficial effects of Mindfulness-
Based Stress Reduction programs on patients' ability to cope with various chronic medical …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationships between psychological and physiologic
measures of stress, mood, and gestational age at delivery and preterm birth. METHODS …