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Salivary cortisol as a biomarker in stress research.
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The present paper addresses several psychological and biological variables, which may account for such dissociations, and aims to help researchers to rate the validity and psychobiological significance of salivary cortisol as an HPAA biomarker of stress in their experiments.About:
This article is published in Psychoneuroendocrinology.The article was published on 2009-02-01. It has received 1472 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Adrenocorticotropic hormone.read more
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Sex-specific associations between sleep problems and hypothalamic—pituitary—adrenocortical axis activity
Anu-Katriina Pesonen,Eero Kajantie,Kati Heinonen,Jari Lahti,Alexander Jones,Karen A. Matthews,Johan G. Eriksson,Timo E. Strandberg,Katri Räikkönen +8 more
TL;DR: Boys with sleep problems (85th percentile in any of the sleep-wake transition, arousal, excessive daytime somnolence or sleep hyperhydrosis subscales) had lower diurnal salivary cortisol, suggesting altered function of the hypothalamic—pituitary—adrenocortical axis (HPAA) may be one underlying mechanism.
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Positive Effects on Emotional Stress and Sleep Quality of Forest Healing Program for Exhausted Medical Workers during the COVID-19 Outbreak
TL;DR: The improvement of the perceived stress scale and the decrease of DHEA-S, a stress index, showed statistically significant results and the authors propose forest healing therapy as one intervention to relieve the job stress for this group of workers.
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Relaxation Response in Stressed Volunteers: Psychometric Tests and Neurotrophin Changes in Biological Fluids
Miriam Zappella,Miriam Zappella,Filippo Biamonte,Bijorn Omar Balzamino,Rocco Manieri,Magdalena Cortes,Daniela Santucci,Enrico Di Stasio,Maurizio Rizzuto,Alessandra Micera +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the beneficial effects of relaxation response training in adult stressed subjects by evaluating the psychometric response recorded at relaxation session, and concluded that RR training appeared useful to lowering psychological, mental, and physical stress, as supported by both psychological total and single scores.
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Measuring Occupational Stress and HRA Axis Dysregulation among Healthy Workers by Salivary Cortisol Levels
TL;DR: Current literature of salivary cortisol as measures of work stress in healthy workers is summarized so as to investigate the association between work stress and cortisol secretion as well as to identify specific work characteristics, that affect the cortisol secretion.
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Understanding the relationship between positive affect and cortisol in lung cancer patients.
TL;DR: The nature of positive affect (PA) and potential associations with diurnal cortisol among lung cancer patients, given the prognostic significance of diurnal corticosterone rhythms, is explored.
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Impact of gender, menstrual cycle phase, and oral contraceptives on the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis.
TL;DR: Although men seem to have a stronger hypothalamic drive in response to stressful stimulation than women, differences in salivary-free cortisol levels, at least in part, may be explained by estradiol-induced changes in corticosteroid-binding protein levels.
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Free Cortisol Levels after Awakening: A Reliable Biological Marker for the Assessment of Adrenocortical Activity
Jens C. Pruessner,Oliver T. Wolf,Dirk H. Hellhammer,Angelika Buske-Kirschbaum,K. von Auer,Silke Jobst,F. Kaspers,Clemens Kirschbaum +7 more
TL;DR: Early morning cortisol levels can be a reliable biological marker for the individual's adrenocortical activity when measured repeatedly with strict reference to the time of awakening, in contrast to single assessments at fixed times.
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Maternal care during infancy regulates the development of neural systems mediating the expression of fearfulness in the rat
Christian Caldji,Beth Tannenbaum,Shakti Sharma,Darlene D. Francis,Paul M. Plotsky,Michael J. Meaney +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that maternal care during infancy serves to "program" behavioral responses to stress in the offspring by altering the development of the neural systems that mediate fearfulness.
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Limbic system mechanisms of stress regulation: hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis.
TL;DR: The influence of the limbic system on the HPA axis is likely the end result of the overall patterning of responses to given stimuli and glucocorticoids, with the magnitude of the secretory response determined with respect to the relative contributions of the various structures.
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The cortisol awakening response (CAR): Facts and future directions
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the anticipation of the upcoming day is of major relevance for the magnitude of the cortisol awakening response, and considerations are addressed concerning the exact function of the CAR.