Behavioral Neurobiology of Stress-related Disorders

Stress is such an over-used word that it is at time difficult to define its core features. When is an environment stressful? What does a stressful environment do to the brain and to the body? What are the biological mechanisms by which a stressor affects us? How does stress contributes to the onset...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Pariante, Carmine M. (Editor ), Lapiz-Bluhm, M. Danet (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 18
Temas:
Neurochemistry.
Psychiatry.
Neurosciences.
Neuroscience.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Effects of stress on the immune system
  • Effects of stress on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
  • Effects of stress on neurogenesis and neuroplasticity
  • Effects of stress on neurotransmitter systems
  • Effects of stress on neuropeptides (CRH, AVP)
  • Effects of stress on cognition and emotional processing
  • Effects of in utero (prenatal and perinatal) and early postnatal stress
  • Stress and depression.- Stress and posttraumatic stress disorder
  • Stress and other anxiety disorders
  • Stress, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.- Stress, substance abuse and addiction
  • Stress, dementia and age-related cognitive decline.- Resilience to stress.  .

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