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 …

Background Stress is an established important contributor to the development of mental
illness and stress related disorders. The biology implicated in the homeostasis of …

Objective: Depressive symptoms are a common mental health problem among young adults,
but the physiological mechanisms that mediate between stress and depressive symptoms …

The detrimental effects of stress on human health are being increasingly recognized. There
is a critical need for the establishment of a biomarker that accurately measures its intensity …

The analysis of hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) is a relatively new strategy to measure
long-term cumulative cortisol levels, which is increasingly used in …

Assessment of cortisol concentrations in hair is one of the latest innovations for measuring
long-term cortisol exposure. We performed a systematic review of correlates of cortisol in …

Background Stress as a cause of illness has been firmly established. In public health and
stress research a retrospective biomarker of extended stress would be an indispensible aid …

To inform the future use of hair cortisol measurement, we have investigated influences of
potential confounding variables (natural hair colour, frequency of hair washes, age, sex, oral …

Objective Research on HPA axis dysregulation has been associated with vulnerability to, or
perseverence of, several mental disorders. Hoever, measurements of cortisol levels in …

Hair cortisol has the potential to fill the methodological void of long-term cortisol assessment
while becoming a widely accepted measure in biopsychology. This review critically …