The deleterious effects of chronic stress on health and its contribution to the development of
mental illness attract broad attention worldwide. An important development in the last few …

The hair cortisol concentration (HCC) is assumed to be a retrospective marker of integrated
cortisol secretion and stress over longer periods of time. Its quantification is increasingly …

Recent technological and analytical progress in brain imaging has enabled the examination
of brain organization and connectivity at unprecedented levels of detail. The Human …

Mostly known as “the stress hormone”, cortisol has many essential functions in humans due
to its involvement in regulation of blood pressure, immune system, metabolism of protein …

The discovery of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) or CRH defining the upper regulatory
arm of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, along with the identification of the …

The skin has developed a hierarchy of systems that encompasses the skin immune and
local steroidogenic activities in order to protect the body against the external environment …

Objectives This review systematically examined the associations between chronic stress
and hair cortisol concentration (HCC) in children, and the potential modification effects of …

This study contributes to literature on leadership by linking the full-range leadership
behaviors (transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership) with an objective …

The quantification of endogenous steroid hormone concentrations in hair is increasingly
used as a method for obtaining retrospective information on long-term integrated hormone …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate cortisol concentrations in hair as biomarker of prolonged stress
in young children and their mothers and the relation to perinatal and sociodemographic …