I also put in here the stress response.

Stress is a general biological response to a potential danger.

This physiological stress response involves high levels of sympathetic nervous system activation, often referred to as the fight or flight response.

These are all functions of the brain the key organ in our response to stress.

What's our response to physical stress, like a fast paced game of field hockey after school?

And so over time, this becomes a stress response, which has enormous effects on the body.

In contrast to normal or tolerable stress, which can build resilience and properly calibrate a child s stress response system, toxic stress is caused by extreme, prolonged adversity in the absence of a supportive network of adults to help the child adapt.

Plant stress this is a measure of the variation in chlorophyll content in living plants, in response to pollutants.

This model is also often referred to as the classic stress response, and it revolves around the concept of homeostasis.

But it turns out that your mortgage, unemployment and looming exam all trigger the same stress response in your body.

Prolonged activation of the body s stress system during early development can damage the formation of the neural connections that comprise our brain architecture and set our stress response system at a hair trigger level.

General adaptive syndrome In terms of measuring the body's response to stress, psychologists tend to use Hans Selye's general adaptation syndrome.

But not all hope is lost for the perpetually stressed. Another hormone, oxytocin, has been shown to reduce this stress response.

It provides us with an important opportunity to stress the priority that must be given to disaster preparedness and disaster response, together.

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The anniversary would be used to stress women's important role in the peace process, in response to the commitment made at the 2005 World Summit.

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(i) managing stress,

stress management and

There is a difference between the engineering stress and the true stress.

Structural adjustment programmes, introduced in response to the economic problems, had brought about new forms of stress, which added to the crisis created by prior mismanagement.

So we found a decrease with stress, they found an increase with stress.

Can stress actually kill you? From a biological perspective, stress makes perfect sense.

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Critical incident stress management

(c) Environmental stress, involving

Stress rewires your brain.

Under great emotional stress?

Under great emotional stress.

For example, the immune system is enhanced by acute stress but suppressed by chronic stress.

In fact, female and male sexual response differs in important ways the length of response cycles, the role of bad stress, and the complexity of pelvic neural wiring (which in men is fairly standard, but in women is highly variegated and individualized).

From June 2004 to June 2005, the Critical Incident Stress Management Unit provided services to 4,387 staff worldwide, 878 of whom received direct counselling in response to critical incidents.

On the other hand, face time with our loved ones it doesn't just protect us against toxic rumination, it also directly puts the breaks on the brain's stress response.

Preventing Toxic Stress in Children

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Also, high stress inhibits oxytocin.

It's a cardiac stress test.

The stationary phase is a transition from rapid growth to a stress response state and there is increased expression of genes involved in DNA repair, antioxidant metabolism and nutrient transport.

One of the outcomes of those activities was the establishment of a cadre of United Nations Secretariat counsellors, constituting 15 experts strategically organized into Regional Critical Incident Stress Response Cells.

We stress the need for a united response and our desire to reduce the vulnerability of Central America and to promote the process of reconstruction and transformation in that region.

I should stress the need for increased attention to the coordinated planning of our response to crisis with the help of specific mechanisms for that purpose in the United Nations.

The brain s response to stress does not necessarily constitute damage per se and is amenable to reversal as well as prevention by treatments that include drugs, exercise, diet, and social support.

International commodity markets are under stress.

There are three categories of stress

Don't stress too much over it.