Behavioral Neurobiology of Stress-related Disorders

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pariante, Carmine M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Lapiz-Bluhm, M. Danet (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 18
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.  .