Lifetime adversity leads to blunted stress axis reactivity: Studies from the Oklahoma Family Health Patterns Project

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 344-349

  Lovallo, William R ^a,b   Farag, Noha H ^c   Sorocco, Kristen H ^a,d   Cohoon, Andrew J ^a,b   Vincent, Andrea S ^e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; gender; heart rate; lifetime adversity; mental stress; stress reactivity

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC SPEAKING; RAPE; RELATIVE; ROBBERY; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; OKLAHOMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME;

EID: 84856014495     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.10.018     Document Type: Article

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