Background Acute psychological stress activates the sympatho-adrenal medullary (SAM)
system and hypothalamo-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis. The relevance of this stress reactivity …

Psychological stress has been proposed as a major contributor to the progression of
cardiovascular disease (CVD). Acute mental stress can activate the sympathetic-adrenal …

The majority of the food insecurity-obesity research has indicated a positive association
among women, especially minority women. Less research has been conducted on men, and …

Stress and Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions, by William R. Lovallo, is a brief
and accessible examination of psychological stress and its psychophysiological …

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with poor future mental and physical
health. Altered biological reactivity to mental stress may be a possible mechanism linking …

A cornerstone for research into the link between stress and health has been the reactivity
hypothesis; cardiovascular reactivity to psychological stressors, if prolonged or exaggerated …

BACKGROUND: Can stressful events in early life alter the response characteristics of the
human stress axis? Individual differences in stress reactivity are considered potentially …

Stable personality traits have long been presumed to have biological substrates, although
the evidence relating personality to biological stress reactivity is inconclusive. The present …

The present study experimentally tested the cross-stressor adaptation hypothesis by
examining whether endurance exercise training leads to reductions in the physiological …

OBJECTIVES: To test the Cross-Stressor Adaptation hypothesis for females by examining
whether physically exercising young women show reduced physiological and psychological …