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Stress and Brain Health: Across the Life Course

  • 1st Edition, Volume 150 - March 21, 2020
  • Editors: Angela Clow, Nina Smyth
  • Language: English
  • Hardback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 7 5 2 - 6
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 7 5 3 - 3

Stress and Brain Health: Across the Life Course, Volume 150, examines up-to-date knowledge on how stress effects brain health. The book's wide-ranging topics include the effect… Read more

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Stress and Brain Health: Across the Life Course, Volume 150, examines up-to-date knowledge on how stress effects brain health. The book's wide-ranging topics include the effects of pre-natal and childhood stress on neurodevelopment and aging. Chapters cover What is stress, how to measure it and effects on brain function, Pre-natal effects of stress on brain development and vulnerability, Stress in childhood, sensitive periods and regulatory mechanisms, The impact of childhood poverty on brain health, Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) on the brain, Stress, aging and epigenetics, The effects of chronic stress on the prefrontal cortex, Neurobiology of resilience to stress, and more.

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