Mechanisms of Physical and Emotional Stress

The Concept of Stress and Its Historical Development.- Basic Mechanisms of the Stress Response.- Sympathoadrenal Medullary System and Stress.- Behavioral Pharmacology of Stress: Focus on CNS Corticotropin-Releasing Factor.- Glucocorticoid Receptors and Behavior: Implications for the Stress Response.- CRH Effects on Central Noradrenergic Neurons: Relationship to Stress.- Hypophysiotropic Regulation of Stress-Induced ACTH Secretion.- Corticotropin Releasing Factor Receptors: Characterization and Actions in the Anterior Pituitary Gland.- Regulation of Pituitary Cyclic AMP, Plasma Prolactin and POMC-Derived Peptide Responses to Stressful Conditions.- Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptors in Brain.- Studies on the Secretion of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor into Hypophysial Portal Blood.- Is There a “Final Common Pathway” in the Regulation of ACTH Release?.- Regulation of Vasopressin and Oxytocin Release In Vitro.- Regulation of Rat Hypothalamic Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Secretion In Vitro; Potential Clinical Implications.- Is the Benzodiazepine/GABA Receptor Chloride Ionophore Complex Involved in Physical and Emotional Stress?.- Stress and Immunity.- Corticosteroids and the Immume Response.- Lipocortins.- Immunologically-Mediated Pituitary-Adrenal Activation.- Glucocorticoid Antagonists and the Role of Glococorticoids at the Resting and Stress State.- Psychological Influences on Immunity: Making Sense of the Relationship between Stressful Life Events and Health.- Physical Stress.- Endocrine Response to Multiple Sensory Imput Related to Injury.- Hormonal Responses to Surgical Stress.- Hormonal Responses to the Stress of Exercise.- Stress, Development and Reproduction.- Stress in the Fetus and Newborn.- Maternal Modulation of Pituitary-Adrenal Activity DuringOntogeny.- Maternal Alcohol Consumption and Stress Responsiveness in Offspring.- Temperamental Influence on Reactions to Unfamiliarity and Challenge.- Physiological and Behavioral Aspects of Stress in Adolescence.- Prolactin and Growth Hormone Secretion in Stress.- Stress and Reproduction: Physiologic and Pathophysiologic Interactions between the Stress and Reproductive Axes.- Human Placenta and the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis.- Individual Differences and Stress Response: Studies of a Wild Primate.- Psychological and Somatic Factors in Women with Pain Due to Pelvic Congestion.- Emotional Stress and Psychiatric Illness.- Neurochemical and Electrophysiological Events Underlying Stress-Depression in an Animal Model.- Implications of Behavioral Sensitization and Kindling for Stress-Induced Behavioral Change.- Effects of Psychological Stress on Pituitary Hormones in Man.- Preclinical and Clinical Evidence for the Involvement of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in the Pathogenesis of Depression.- The Psychology of Stress: Run Silent, Run Deep.- The Clinical Implications of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone.