Adaptive and Maladaptive Aspects of Developmental Stress / edited by Giovanni Laviola, Simone Macrì.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laviola, Giovanni, editor.

Macrì, Simone, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Biomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)

Current topics in neurotoxicity 2363-9563 ; 3.

Current Topics in Neurotoxicity, 2363-9563 ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurosciences.

Psychiatry.

Medicine.

Biomedicine, general.

Local Subjects:

Neurosciences.

Psychiatry.

Biomedicine, general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 281 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2013.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Since the very early stages of life, we all experience some form of stress. Stressors can be mild to severe and can range from unsuccessfully longing for maternal milk in infancy, to recklessly wiggling on a motorbike to be on time to watch the NBA finals on TV, to breaking up a relationship. All those events that we call "stress" have the capability of perturbing a given state of psychological and physiological equilibrium and moving it to a different level. The transition from crawling to walking has to be considered a form of stress as much as losing a job. It is through a continuous cross-talk between environmental stressors and individual adaptations that we build our personalities and our ways to cope with daily hassles. External challenges should not necessarily be regarded as "bad", but instead seen as constructive forces forming our ability to navigate a changing world. What is stress good for? What is stress bad for? When and why do we need to be "stressed"? Should we worry about stress? When does stress equate to "normality"? When does it turn into pathology? We hope with this book to provide some answers to these fundamental questions. .

Contents:

Making Sense of Stress: An Evolutionary-Developmental Framework

Prenatal and maternal psychosocial stress in primates: adaptive plasticity or vulnerability to pathology?

The Everyday Stress Resilience Hypothesis: Unfolding resilience from a perspective of everyday stress and coping

Ontogeny of stress reactivity in the human child: Phenotypic flexibility, trade-offs, and pathology

Consequences of Developmental Stress in Humans: Prenatal Stress

Consequences of Developmental Stress in Humans: Adversity experienced during Childhood and Adolescence

Behavioural and neuroendocrine consequences of prenatal stress in rat

Developmental consequences of prenatal administration of glucocorticoids in rodents and primates

Early developmental trajectories of brain development: New directions in the search for early determinants of health and longevity

Adaptive regulations in developing rodents following neonatal challenges

Adaptive and maladaptive regulations in response to environmental stress in adolescent rodents

Oxidative stress and hormetic responses in the early life of birds.

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Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-1-4614-5605-6

9781461456056

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