Sex differences in the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis' response to stress: an important role for gonadal hormones

AL Heck, RJ Handa - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2019 - nature.com
The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, a neuroendocrine network that controls
hormonal responses to internal and external challenges in an organism's environment …

Brain–heart interaction: cardiac complications after stroke

Z Chen, P Venkat, D Seyfried, M Chopp, T Yan… - Circulation …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Neurocardiology is an emerging specialty that addresses the interaction between the brain
and the heart, that is, the effects of cardiac injury on the brain and the effects of brain injury …

The corticotropin-releasing factor family: physiology of the stress response

JM Deussing, A Chen - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The physiological stress response is responsible for the maintenance of homeostasis in the
presence of real or perceived challenges. In this function, the brain activates adaptive …

Gonadal steroid hormones and the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis

RJ Handa, MJ Weiser - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2014 - Elsevier
The hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis represents a complex neuroendocrine
feedback loop controlling the secretion of adrenal glucocorticoid hormones. Central to its …

Maternal care, hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress

D Liu, J Diorio, B Tannenbaum, C Caldji, D Francis… - Science, 1997 - science.org
Variations in maternal care affect the development of individual differences in
neuroendocrine responses to stress in rats. As adults, the offspring of mothers that exhibited …

The role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in neuroendocrine responses to stress

SM Smith, WW Vale - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Animals respond to stress by activating a wide array of behavioral and physiological
responses that are collectively referred to as the stress response. Corticotropin-releasing …

Maternal care, gene expression, and the transmission of individual differences in stress reactivity across generations

MJ Meaney - Annual review of neuroscience, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Naturally occurring variations in maternal care alter the expression of genes that
regulate behavioral and endocrine responses to stress, as well as hippocampal synaptic …

Neurocircuitry of stress: central control of the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenocortical axis

JP Herman, WE Cullinan - Trends in neurosciences, 1997 - cell.com
Integration of the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal stress response occurs by way of
interactions between stress-sensitive brain circuitry and neuroendocrine neurons of the …

Central mechanisms of stress integration: hierarchical circuitry controlling hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenocortical responsiveness

JP Herman, H Figueiredo, NK Mueller… - Frontiers in …, 2003 - Elsevier
Appropriate regulatory control of the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenocortical stress axis is
essential to health and survival. The following review documents the principle extrinsic and …

Neuroendocrine perspectives on social attachment and love

CS Carter - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 1998 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to review existing behavioral and neuroendocrine perspectives
on social attachment and love. Both love and social attachments function to facilitate …