The hypothalamic- pituitary -adrenal -leptin axis and metabolic health: A systems approach to resilience, robustness and control

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Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Aschbacher, Kirstin ^a,b   Rodriguez Fernandez, Maria ^c   van Wietmarschen, Herman ^d,e   Janet Tomiyama, A ^f   Jain, Shamini ^g,h   Epel, Elissa ^a   Doyle III, Francis J ^c   van der Greef, Jan ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for Integrative Health   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic systems; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Psychological stress; Robustness; Stress eating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906500502     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2014.0020     Document Type: Article

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