Browsing by Subject "stress"
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(2015-04-02)Department: PsychologyEmotion differentiation is emerging as a focus in emotion research due to its potential for enhancing regulation strategies, social functioning, and other valuable life outcomes. These studies aim to explore whether the ...
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An ensemble recruited by α2a-adrenergic receptors is engaged in a stressor-specific manner in mice (2022-11-14)Department: Pharmacologyα2a-adrenergic receptor (α2a-AR) agonists are candidate substance use disorder therapeutics due to their ability to recruit noradrenergic autoreceptors to dampen stress system engagement. However, we recently found that ...
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(2015-12-08)Department: NeuroscienceAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social behavior. It is unclear if deficits are due to disinterest in social stimuli, or to an elevated stress response. The ...
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(2009-06-15)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is a region of the brain critical in mediating behavioral and physiological responses to stress and anxiety. Stress is a major cause of relapse for drug addicts attempting ...
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(2011-08-01)Department: PsychologyOne community sample (N = 607) of youths generated self-reported responses to body dissatisfaction, from which the Adolescent Responses to Body Dissatisfaction (ARBD) inventory was constructed. A second similar sample (N ...
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(2018-09-18)Department: NeuroscienceStress contributes to numerous psychiatric disorders. CRF signaling in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) drives negative affective behaviors, thus agents that decrease activity of these cells may be of therapeutic ...
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(2012-08-12)Department: PsychologyThe current study investigated the role of chronic stress in alterations in automatic attentional and stress reactivity processes that may affect vulnerability to mental and physical illness in women. Participants were ...
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(2022-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyRace based stress, also known as racial trauma, is defined as significant distress due to real or perceived racial discrimination. These can include threats to harm and/or injure, shaming and humiliation, and being witness ...
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(2016-08-01)Department: NeuroscienceCannabinoid 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 ...
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(2023-03-29)Department: NeuroscienceThe endocannabinoid (eCB) system, which consists of the cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1R) and its endogenous ligand, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), as well as key synthesis and degradation enzymes, can promote bidirectional, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-03-30)While new treatments have increased the survival rate of pediatric patients with brain tumors, they have also left this population with many adverse cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. Prior research provides ...
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(2015-04-01)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySouthern 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 ...
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(2016-04-08)Department: PsychologyAnxiety and stress can have debilitating effects on our physical and mental health. The purpose of the current study was to examine a way to buffer, or protect, people with anxious symptoms from the negative affect produced ...
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(2014-12-08)Department: NeuroscienceThe lateral division of the central amygdala (CeAL) is a key structure at the limbic-motor interface regulating stress-responses and emotional learning. Endocannabinoid (eCB) signaling is heavily implicated in the regulation ...
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(2018-06-18)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceA fundamental perception in the energy storage community is that mechanical processes accompanying electrochemical processes are an unavoidable by-product. However, the coupling between mechanics and electrochemistry termed ...
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(2006-01-20)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe importance of integration of information from neurocircuits innervating the reward circuitry is becoming increasingly recognized. For instance, the roles of stress/anxiety pathways in modulating specific effects of ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: SociologyDespite a large literature outlining the significance of racial discrimination for risk of poor health and well-being among black Americans, there is a growing recognition that current measures fail to reliably and ...
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(2017-02-20)Department: PsychologyThe present study integrated and expanded upon two previously separate lines of research on stress and coping processes endemic to mothers faced with two significant sources of stress: mothers coping with a child’s cancer ...
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(2013-04-19)Department: SociologyPrevious 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, ...
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(2009-03-30)Department: PsychologyPrevious 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 ...