Stress is recognized as an important issue in basic and clinical neuroscience research,
based upon the founding historical studies by Walter Canon and Hans Selye in the past …

Over the last 50 years, the concept of stress has evolved significantly, and our
understanding of the underlying neurobiology has expanded dramatically. Rather than …

Highlights•Individuals differ in the perception and adaptation to aversive and stressful
stimuli.•Stress-susceptibility is associated with functional changes in specific neural …

The brain is the central organ of stress and adaptation to stress because it perceives and
determines what is threatening, as well as the behavioral and physiological responses to the …

Although stress simultaneously affects and causes changes in central nervous system
systems together with the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamus–pituitary …

Stressors represent a potential threat to the individual human or animal, and the stress
response is integral to adapting to the stressor. The identification of a stimulus or collection …

The way in which researchers conceptualise and thus define stress shapes the way in which
they approach the task of mapping the brain's stress control pathways. Unfortunately, much …

Exposure to stress induces profound physiological and behavioral changes in the
organisms and some of these changes may be important regarding stress-induced …

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 …

Environmental challenges are part of daily life for any individual. In fact, stress appears to be
increasingly present in our modern, and demanding, industrialized society. Virtually every …