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Onset, timing, and exposure therapy of stress disorders: mechanistic insight from a mathematical model of oscillating neuroendocrine dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a neuroendocrine system that regulates numerous physiological processes. Disruptions in the activity of the HPA axis are correlated with many stress-related diseases such as post-traumatic stress disorder (
Chou, Tom   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

From nucleation to percolation: the effect of system size when disorder and stress localization compete [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Physics, Front. Phys. 9, 752086 (2021), 2021
A phase diagram for a one-dimensional fiber bundle model is constructed with a continuous variation in two parameters guiding the dynamics of the model: strength of disorder and range of stress relaxation. When the range of stress relaxation is very low, the stress concentration plays a prominent role and the failure process is nucleating where a ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the 21-Item Game Addiction Scale With a Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Background: Excessive gaming has become a psychological health issue for both gamers and their social environments. This observation holds true for western but also non-western countries such as Iran.
Nasrin Abdoli   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Stress-Related Disorders [PDF]

open access: yesPsychiatric Clinics of North America, 2009
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent anxiety disorder. Symptoms present shortly after an exposure to a traumatic event, abate with time in the majority of those who initially express them, and leave a significant minority with chronic PTSD. PTSD may be treated with pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy.
openaire   +3 more sources

The Effect of Midwife-led Psycho-Education on Parental Stress, Postpartum Depression and Parental Competency in High Risk Pregnancy Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Caring Sciences, 2021
Introduction: Women with high-risk pregnancy are at increased risk of depression and anxiety during pregnancy, as well as a less favorable parent-infant interaction.
Leila Chaharrahifard   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stress and disorders of the stress system [PDF]

open access: yesNature Reviews Endocrinology, 2009
All organisms must maintain a complex dynamic equilibrium, or homeostasis, which is constantly challenged by internal or external adverse forces termed stressors. Stress occurs when homeostasis is threatened or perceived to be so; homeostasis is re-established by various physiological and behavioral adaptive responses.
openaire   +3 more sources

Relationship Between Depression and Subtypes of Early Life Stress in Adult Psychiatric Patients

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Numerous studies have researched the aggravating and maintainer effect of Early Life Stress in patients adults with psychiatric disorders. This study examined the relationship between depression and subtypes of early life stress among 81 psychiatric ...
Camila Maria Severi Martins-Monteverde   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of the virtual training program for managing fever and seizures on the stress of mothers of children with febrile seizures [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Multidisciplinary Care, 2023
Background and aims: This study investigates the effect of virtual training on the stress of mothers of children with febrile seizures. Methods: This quasi-experimental research was conducted on 64 mothers of children with febrile seizures in Shahrekord ...
Fateme Khademi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Immunological Disorder? [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2017
Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exhibit an increased state of inflammation. Various animal models for PTSD have shown some of the same immune imbalances as have been shown in human subjects with PTSD, and some of these studies are discussed in this review.
M. Rita I. Young   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

A Review on the Expression Pattern of Non-coding RNAs in Patients With Schizophrenia: With a Special Focus on Peripheral Blood as a Source of Expression Analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Schizophrenia is a destructive neuropsychiatric disease with a median prevalence of 4.0 per 1,000 during the whole life. Genome-wide association studies have shown the role of copy number variants (generally deletions) and certain alleles of common ...
Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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