Stress and Aging: A Question of Resilience with Implications for Disease

The Handbook of Stress: Neuropsychological Effects on the Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 349-366

  Bloss, Erik B ^a   Morrison, John H ^a   Mcewen, Bruce S ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal HPA axis reactivity, stress exposure and aging process; Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk; Cellular plasticity mechanisms in aging; GC receptors in cognitive aging and disease; GCs modulating cognitive aging; HPA axis activation in predictable circadian rhythm; Neurobiological mechanisms, age, vulnerability or resilience; Stress and aging and resilience for disease; Stress, aging and resilience; Transcriptional coactivator cAMP response element binding protein (CREB)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885801891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118083222.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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