Modelling a loss event: Effect of imagined bereavement on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 219-223

  McCleery, J M ^a   Bhagwagar, Z ^a   Smith, K A ^a   Goodwin, G M ^a   Cowen, P J ^a  

^a WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIFE EVENT; MODEL; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS;

ADULT; AFFECT; BEREAVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033965288     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291799001361     Document Type: Article

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