Chronic Stress and Disease

Rohleder N (2016)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2016

Publisher: Elsevier Inc.

Edited Volumes: Insights to Neuroimmune Biology

Pages Range: 201-214

ISBN: 9780128017708

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801770-8.00009-4

Abstract

Chronic stress is cross-sectionally and prospectively associated with disease development and reduced life expectancy. Chronic stress can take many different forms, from extreme or traumatic single life events such as rape, accidents, natural disasters to long-term exposure to stressful conditions, such as caregiving, and finally, to accumulation of daily hassles, in someone's private life as well as in the work environment. As summarized in this chapter, there is now strong evidence linking many different forms of chronic stress with different diseases, with shorter life expectancy. In our quest to understand, and potentially intervene against, the health effects of chronic stress, research has targeted the communication systems linking the CNS, in which stress experience is located, with the periphery of the organism, in which damage accumulates that ultimately leads to disease and death.

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APA:

Rohleder, N. (2016). Chronic Stress and Disease. In Istvan Berczi (Eds.), Insights to Neuroimmune Biology. (pp. 201-214). Elsevier Inc..

MLA:

Rohleder, Nicolas. "Chronic Stress and Disease." Insights to Neuroimmune Biology. Ed. Istvan Berczi, Elsevier Inc., 2016. 201-214.

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