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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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Series: | Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45126-7 |
Table of Contents:
- 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. .