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Endocrine Responses to Stressful Psychological Events
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Hormonal response is one of the three major effector systems of the central nervous system and has also shown the relevance of whether the individual perceives the event as potentially challenging or threatening.About:
This article is published in Psychiatric Clinics of North America.The article was published on 1980-08-01. It has received 157 citations till now.read more
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Acute stressors and cortisol responses: a theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research.
TL;DR: Motivated performance tasks elicited cortisol responses if they were uncontrollable or characterized by social-evaluative threat (task performance could be negatively judged by others), when methodological factors and other stressor characteristics were controlled for.
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Mechanisms of stress: a dynamic overview of hormonal and behavioral homeostasis.
TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to define the concepts of stress and the stress response from a historical perspective, present a dynamic overview of the biobehavioral mechanisms that participate in the Stress Response, and examine the consequences of stress on the physiologic and behavioral well-being of the organism by integrating knowledge from apparently disparate fields of science.
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Child abuse and neglect and the brain--a review.
TL;DR: The importance of early intervention and attention to the chronicity of environmental adversity may indicate the need for permanent alternative caregivers, in order to preserve the development of the most vulnerable children.
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Behavioral Inhibition and Stress Reactivity: The Moderating Role of Attachment Security
TL;DR: The role of the mother-toddler attachment relationship in moderating the relations between behavioral inhibition and changes in salivary cortisol levels in response to novel events was examined and mothers in these relationships appeared to interfere with toddlers' coping efforts.
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Are adolescents the victims of raging hormones: evidence for activational effects of hormones on moods and behavior at adolescence.
TL;DR: The literature on hormone changes at adolescence, hormonal influences on moods and behavior in nonhuman animals and adult humans, and mood and behavioral changes at adolescents and the small but burgeoning literature on hormonal influences at adolescence are examined in this paper.