The sandpile model: Optimal stress and hormesis

Dose-Response

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-74

  Stark, Martha ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity theory; Hormesis; Sandpile model; Stress response

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALLOSTASIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHAOS THEORY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMESIS; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SANDPILE MODEL; STRESS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84859022470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15593258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.11-010.Stark     Document Type: Article

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