Adverse childhood experiences, allostasis, allostatic load, and age-related disease

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-39

  Danese, Andrea ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse childhood experiences; Allostasis; Allostatic load; Childhood maltreatment; Stress

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULTHOOD; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGING; ALLOSTASIS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL AGING; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOCIAL STRESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALLOSTASIS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84857112394     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.08.019     Document Type: Review

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