Websites:
For an explanation of the different kinds of stress and their
relationship to mental and physical health, see the American
Psychological Society's web site:
helping.apa.org/work/stress4.html
"Stress-Coping With Everyday Problems" offers some practical
advice from the National mental health Association. Includes
tips on where to get help with managing your stress. Find it
on the NMHA website: www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/41.cfm
Articles:
"The neurobiology of stress: from serendipity
to clinical relevance," by Bruce McEwen. (Brain Research,
2000, Volume 886, pp. 172-189.)
"Glucocorticoids and hippocampal atrophy
in neuropsychiatric disorders," by Robert Sapolsky.
(Archives of General Psychiatry, 2000, Volume 57, pp. 925-935.)
"Glucocorticoids and the ageing hippocampus,"
by C. Hibberd and J. Yau. (Journal of Anatomy, 2000, Volume
197, pp. 553-562.)
"Stress and sex effects on associative
learning: for better or for worse," by Tracey Shors.
(The Neuroscientist, 2001, Volume 4, pp. 353-364.)
"Acute stress rapidly and persistently
enhances memory formation in the male rat," by TracEy
Shors. (Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2001, Volume
75, pp. 10-29.)
"Stress facilitates classical conditioning
in males, but impairs classical conditioning in females through
activational effects of ovarian hormones," by G. Wood
and T. Shors. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
USA, 1998, Volume 95, pp. 4066-4071.)
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