Over 60 years ago, Selye1 recognized the paradox that the physiologic systems activated by
stress can not only protect and restore but also damage the body. What links these …

Adaptation in the face of potentially stressful challenges involves activation of neural,
neuroendocrine and neuroendocrine‐immune mechanisms. This has been called …

What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? do we control our
emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic …

The brain is the key organ of the response to stress because it determines what is
threatening and, therefore, potentially stressful, as well as the physiological and behavioral …

SES is consistently associated with health outcomes, yet little is known about the
psychosocial and behavioral mechanisms that might explain this association. Researchers …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

The brain is the key organ of stress reactivity, co**, and recovery processes. Within the
brain, a distributed neural circuitry determines what is threatening and thus stressful to the …

Effective navigation requires planning extended routes to remembered goal locations.
Hippocampal place cells have been proposed to have a role in navigational planning, but …

The hormones and other physiological agents that mediate the effects of stress on the body
have protective and adaptive effects in the short run and yet can accelerate pathophysiology …

▪ Abstract The hippocampus is a target of stress hormones, and it is an especially plastic and
vulnerable region of the brain. It also responds to gonadal, thyroid, and adrenal hormones …