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The Social Determinants of Refugee Health: An Integrated Perspective
(2014-07-22)
Millions of individuals and families have been permanently resettled in host countries after having fled their homes in order to seek safety from war or persecution. These resettled refugees may experience extreme hardship ...
Parental Depression, Economic Disadvantage, and the Dual Process Model of Responses to Stress in Children
(2009-03-30)
Previous research has shown that both having a parent with depression and economic disadvantage are chronically stressful and lead to poorer outcomes in children and adolescents, but these stressors have never been studied ...
Stress- and Drug-Dependent Regulation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis
(2011-04-15)
Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are important modulators of excitatory transmission throughout the central nervous system, and have been implicated in a variety of neurological disorders. This work focuses ...
α1-adrenergic receptor regulation of excitatory transmission in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: characterization, mechanism, and potential role in disease
(2009-04-21)
Synaptic plasticity is proposed to be a molecular mechanism underlying multiple forms of learning. The modulation of synaptic plasticity, therefore, may have profound consequences over behavior and may mediate pathological ...
Stress reactivity and regulation in young adults at varied risk for depression
(2011-06-28)
This study examined cortisol reactivity and regulation to a psychosocial stress task in 102 young adults, ages 18 to 31 (mean age = 22.97, SD = 3.87), at varied risk for depression (56 remitted depressed, 46 never depressed). ...
Endocannabinoid Augmentation Through Substrate-Selective COX-2 Inhibition: Behavioral and Synaptic Effects In An Animal Model of Stress-Induced Anxiety
(2016-08-01)
Cannabinoid receptors have been examined as potential targets to alleviate the negative consequences of anxiety, trauma-related, and stress-related disorders. However, in preclinical animal studies, synthetic cannabinoids ...
How Identity, Stressors and Obesity should be considered in Intervention Programs to Reduce Chronic Disease Risk among Southern Middle-Aged African American Men
(2015-04-01)
Southern African American middle-aged men have high rates of obesity and premature mortality due to chronic illnesses. Different sources were brought together to perform a critical literature review to better understand ...
Recurrent Abdominal Pain, Anxiety, and Responses to Stress in Children and Adolescents
(2008-05-20)
Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is the most common type of recurrent pediatric pain. Much evidence shows that this condition adversely affects many areas of a child’s functioning, including repeated school problems and ...
Not so Supportive? Black-White Differences in the Protective Effect of Social Support on Birthweight and Preterm Delivery
(2013-04-19)
Previous studies consistently find noted racial differences in stress and perceived social support, as well as evidence of a buffering effect of social support against stress in pregnancy. What has not been established, ...
Psychological and Biological Stress During Mother-Daughter Communication About Breast Cancer Risk
(2007-05-30)
Mothers and their adolescent and young adult daughters at risk for breast cancer may experience stress as a result of being at risk for the disease. The current study examined psychological and biological stress responses ...