Behavioral Neurobiology of Stress-related Disorders

Behavioral Neurobiology of Stress-related Disorders edited by Carmine M. Pariante, M. Danet Lapiz-Bluhm.

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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pariante, Carmine M. (Editor), Lapiz-Bluhm, M. Danet (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 18
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Neurochemistry.
Psychiatry.
Neurobiology.
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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.  .

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