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Biobehavioral Stress Response: Protective and Damaging Effects, Procedings.


QP82

2004-027337

1-57331-519-2

Biobehavioral stress response; protective and damaging effects; procedings.

International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. Congress (34th: 2003: New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, N.Y.) Ed. by Rachel Yehuda & Bruce McEwen Bruce McEwen is the Alfred E. Mirsky professor of neuroscience and runs the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University. Career
His career has spanned many decades.
 (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences The New York Academy of Sciences is the third oldest scientific society in the United States. An independent, non-profit organization with more than 25,000 members in 140 countries, the Academy’s mission is to advance understanding of science and technology. ; v. 1032)

N.Y. Academy of Sciences, [c]2004

331 p.

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Papers from a September 2003 meeting provide an opportunity to examine many of the popular assumptions about the biologic components of the stress response that confer distress or are likely to culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit.  in mental or physical pathology, and to replace these assumptions with findings that suggest a far more complex model of stress. The book draws attention to the lack of uniform biological and behavioral responses to stress, focusing instead on the multifaceted mul·ti·fac·et·ed  
adj.
Having many facets or aspects. See Synonyms at versatile.

Adj. 1. multifaceted - having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the multifarious
 attributes of stressors and individual vulnerability and protective factors. There is no subject index.
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