Eating behavior and stress: A pathway to obesity

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Sominsky, Luba ^a   Spencer, Sarah J ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH); Ghrelin; Glucocorticoids; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; Insulin; Leptin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904570089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00434     Document Type: Review

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