Protective and damaging effects of mediators of stress. Elaborating and testing the concepts of allostasis and allostatic load

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 896, Issue , 1999, Pages 30-47

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Seeman, Teresa ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIET; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXERCISE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL STRESS; MONKEY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033399095     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08103.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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