Stressful military training: Endocrine reactivity, performance, and psychological impact

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1143-1149

  Taylor, Marcus K ^a,d   Sausen, Kenneth P ^a   Potterat, Eric G ^b   Mujica Parodi, Lilianne R ^c   Reis, Jared P ^a   Markham, Amanda E ^a   Padilla, Genieleah A ^a   Taylor, Deborah L ^a,b,c,d  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; DHEAS; Hormones; Survival

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARMY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SALIVA; STRESS; TRAINING;

ADULT; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; EDUCATION; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 36749057382     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2151.2007     Document Type: Article

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