Psychobiology of Stress

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Stress: Ethological Implications

   • P. R. Wiepkema

   Pages 1-13

3. Short and Long Term Physiological and Neurochemical Adaptations to Social Conflict

   • Klaus A. Miczek, Michael L. Thompson, Walter Tornatzky

   Pages 15-30

4. Social Behavior of the House Mouse: A Potential Model for Preclinical Studies on Stress

   • Simona Cabib, Stefano Puglisi-Allegra

   Pages 31-40

5. A Role for Affective Neuroscience in Understanding Stress: The Case of Separation Distress Circuitry

   • Jaak Panksepp

   Pages 41-57

6. Behavioral Effects of Manipulations of the Olfactory Environment in Developing Mice: Involvement of the Dopaminergic System

   • Francesca R. D’Amato, Simona Cabib

   Pages 59-71

7. Order and Disorder in the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Stress Activation

   • L. Angelucci, R. Montez

   Pages 73-80

8. Corticotropin-Releasing Factor as the Mediator of Stress Responses

   • Adrian J. Dunn, Craig W. Berridge

   Pages 81-93

9. Psychobiology of Stress and Immune Functions

   • Pierre Mormède

   Pages 95-102

10. Neuropeptides and Behavioural and Physiological Stress Response: The Role of Vasopressin and Related Peptides

    • B. Bohus, J. M. Koolhaas, C. Nyakas, P. G. M. Luiten, C. A. M. Versteeg, S. M. Korte et al.

    Pages 103-123

11. Role of Prolactin in Stress-Induced Biological Modifications in Animals

    • Filippo Drago, Francesco Spadaro, Velia D’Agata, Teresa Iacona, Carmela Valerio, Rocco Raffaele et al.

    Pages 125-133

12. Perinatal Determinant of the Pituitary-Adrenal Activity in the Adult Rat

    • F. R. Patacchioli, L. Angelucci

    Pages 135-142

13. Counterregulation of Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia by Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone

    • Shimon Amir, Robin Pollock

    Pages 143-149

14. Noradrenergic Receptor Mechanisms in Stress Adaptation

    • Eric A. Stone

    Pages 151-160

15. The Effects of Acute Exposure to Stressors and Drug Grow with the Passage of Time

    • Seymour M. Antelman, Anthony R. Caggiula

    Pages 161-170

16. Genotype-Dependent Adaptation of Brain Dopamine System to Stress

    • Stefano Puglisi-Allegra, Simona Cabib, Eliane Kempf, Alberto Oliverio

    Pages 171-182

17. Adrenocortical and Central Monoaminergic System Responses to Different Stressful Situations in Young and Senescent Rats

    • S. Algeri, L. Biagini, P. Garofalo, M. Marconi, N. Pitsikas, G. Sacchetti

    Pages 183-190

18. Approaches to Stress in Man — Present Knowledge and Future Research

    • Lennart Levi

    Pages 191-201

19. Behaviour in Situations of Conflict

    • Michel Cabanac

    Pages 203-209

20. Stress and Distress from Fluorescent Lighting

    • Arnold J. Wilkins

    Pages 211-221

From a historical point of view the first studies on the response of the organism to stressful situations in general, and on the psychobiology of stress in particular, are probably those of Cannon and de la Paz, the physiologists who showed in 1911 that the adrenal medulla and the sympathetic system are involved in emergency situations. Cannon noted that the venous blood of cats frightened by barking dogs contained adrenaline, a response of the organism which was prevented by adrenalectomy or by section of the splanchnic nerve innervating the adrenal medulla. Cannon suggested that the adrenal medulla was acting in concert with the sympathetic nervous system, so that both systems were activated during stress. The role of the sympathetic system in response to stressful events was later emphasized by the experiments carried out by Maickel et al. (1967) and by Mason (1968): these authors clearly showed that stressors activate the sympathetic system causing it to release adrenaline and noradrenaline. This line of research may be contrasted with that carried out by Hans Selye, centered on of the adrenal cortex in the stress response. Selye's findings and theories originated the role the so-called hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal cortex (HPA) model of stress: in short, during stress adrenocorticotropic hormone is released from cells of the anterior pituitary and elicits secretion of glucocorticoids from the adrenal cortex.

• Affective Neuroscience
• behavior
• brain
• dopamine
• neuropeptides
• neuroscience
• receptor
• stress

• Institute of Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology, National Research Council of Italy (C.N.R.), Rome, Italy

  Stefan Puglisi-Allegra

• Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  Alberto Oliverio

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