Protection and damage from acute and chronic stress: Allostasis and allostatic overload and relevance to the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1032, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-7

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostasis; Allostatic overload; Depression; Homeostasis; Psychiatric disorders; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; ALLOSTASIS; ALLOSTATIC OVERLOAD; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATROPHY; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LEARNING; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 14544269337     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1314.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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