Developmental trajectories of early life stress and trauma: a narrative review on neurobiological aspects beyond stress system dysregulation

A Agorastos, P Pervanidou, GP Chrousos… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Early life stressors display a high universal prevalence and constitute a major public health
problem. Prolonged psychoneurobiological alterations as sequelae of early life stress (ELS) …

Adult hippocampal neurogenesis, fear generalization, and stress

A Besnard, A Sahay - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016 - nature.com
The generalization of fear is an adaptive, behavioral, and physiological response to the
likelihood of threat in the environment. In contrast, the overgeneralization of fear, a cardinal …

[HTML][HTML] The body keeps the score: The neurobiological profile of traumatized adolescents

D Laricchiuta, A Panuccio, E Picerni, D Biondo… - … & biobehavioral reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Trauma-related disorders are debilitating psychiatric conditions that affect people who have
directly or indirectly witnessed adversities. Experiencing multiple types of traumas appears …

Early life stress and trauma: developmental neuroendocrine aspects of prolonged stress system dysregulation

A Agorastos, P Pervanidou, GP Chrousos, G Kolaitis - Hormones, 2018 - Springer
Experience of early life stress (ELS) and trauma is highly prevalent in the general population
and has a high public health impact, as it can trigger a health-related risk cascade and lead …

C‐reactive protein: Marker of risk for post‐traumatic stress disorder and its potential for a mechanistic role in trauma response and recovery

SF Friend, R Nachnani, SB Powell… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing evidence indicates that inflammation plays a role in PTSD and stress disorder
pathophysiology. PTSD is consistently associated with higher circulating inflammatory …

Anaplastic lymphoma kinase in human cancer

A Barreca, E Lasorsa, L Riera… - Journal of …, 2011 - jme.bioscientifica.com
Although genetics determines endocrine phenotypes, it cannot fully explain the great
variability and reversibility of the system in response to environmental changes. Evidence …

The molecular biology of susceptibility to post-traumatic stress disorder: highlights of epigenetics and epigenomics

GI Al Jowf, C Snijders, BPF Rutten, L de Nijs… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Exposure to trauma is one of the most important and prevalent risk factors for mental and
physical ill-health. Excessive or prolonged stress exposure increases the risk of a wide …

Epigenetic alterations of the BDNF gene in combat‐related post‐traumatic stress disorder

TY Kim, SJ Kim, HG Chung, JH Choi… - Acta Psychiatrica …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays a crucial role in modulating
resilience and vulnerability to stress. The aim of this study was to investigate whether …

Modelling posttraumatic stress disorders in animals

B Török, E Sipos, N Pivac, D Zelena - Progress in Neuro …, 2019 - Elsevier
Animal models of posttraumatic stress disorder are useful tools to reveal the neurobiological
basis of the vulnerability to traumatic events, and to develop new treatment strategies, as …

SKA2 methylation is involved in cortisol stress reactivity and predicts the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after military deployment

MP Boks, BPF Rutten, E Geuze, LC Houtepen… - …, 2016 - nature.com
Genomic variation in the SKA2 gene has recently been identified as a promising suicide
biomarker. In light of its role in glucocorticoid receptor transactivation, we investigated …