Behavioral Neurobiology of Stress-related Disorders

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pariante, Carmine M. (Editor), Lapiz-Bluhm, M. Danet (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 18
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurochemistry.; Psychiatry.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.

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...