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stress
Reaction of the body to deleterious forces, infections & abnormal states that disturb homeostasis.
Laboratory:
-> increased serum IL-6 [2]
Special laboratory:
- investigational MRI [2]
- during social stress, activation of the amygdala correlates with the size of the city in which a person resides
- activation of a part of the cingulate cortex correlates with upbringing in a large city [2]
Related
Stress & the Developing Brain
Specific
abuse
oxidative stress
psychosocial stress
General
sign/symptom
References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
- Lederbogen F et al.
City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress
processing in humans.
Nature 2011 Jun 23; 474:498.
PMID: 21697947
- Kennedy DP and Adolphs R.
Social neuroscience: Stress and the city.
Nature 2011 Jun 23; 474:452.
PMID: 21697937