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 …

Region-specific roles of the corticotropin-releasing factor–urocortin system in stress

MJAG Henckens, JM Deussing, A Chen - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Dysregulation of the corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)–urocortin (UCN) system has been
implicated in stress-related psychopathologies such as depression and anxiety. It has been …

Life history and the ecology of stress: how do glucocorticoid hormones influence life‐history variation in animals?

EJ Crespi, TD Williams, TS Jessop… - Functional …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Glucocorticoids hormones (GC s) are intuitively important for mediation of age‐dependent
vertebrate life‐history transitions through their effects on ontogeny alongside underpinning …

Stress hormone regulation: biological role and translation into therapy

F Holsboer, M Ising - Annual review of psychology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Stress is defined as a state of perturbed homeostasis following endangerment that evokes
manifold adaptive reactions, which are summarized as the stress response. In the case of …

Vasopressin: behavioral roles of an “original” neuropeptide

HK Caldwell, HJ Lee, AH Macbeth… - Progress in neurobiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Vasopressin (Avp) is mainly synthesized in the magnocellular cells of the hypothalamic
supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular nuclei (PVN) whose axons project to the posterior …

Involvement of stress-released corticotropin-releasing hormone in the basolateral amygdala in regulating memory consolidation

B Roozendaal, KL Brunson… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
It is well established that adrenal stress hormone-induced activation of the basolateral
complex of the amygdala (BLA) influences memory consolidation. The present experiments …

Conceptually driven pharmacologic approaches to acute trauma

RK Pitman, DL Delahanty - CNS spectrums, 2005 - cambridge.org
Secondary prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) entails intervening in the
aftermath of a traumatic event to forestall the development of PTSD. There has been little …

HPA axis and memory

OT Wolf - Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & …, 2003 - Elsevier
The hormones of the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis influence memory in
situations of acute and chronic stress. The present review tries to summarize the current …

Recognition memory strength is predicted by pupillary responses at encoding while fixation patterns distinguish recollection from familiarity

A Kafkas, D Montaldi - Quarterly journal of experimental …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Thirty-five healthy participants incidentally encoded a set of man-made and natural object
pictures, while their pupil response and eye movements were recorded. At retrieval, studied …

Memory strength and specificity revealed by pupillometry

MH Papesh, SD Goldinger, MC Hout - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Voice-specificity effects in recognition memory were investigated using both behavioral data
and pupillometry. Volunteers initially heard spoken words and nonwords in two voices; they …