Adverse childhood experiences, allostasis, allostatic load, and age-related disease

2011/08/27 by Andrea Danese, Bruce S. McEwen · 2,115 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Adverse Childhood Experiences #Allostasis #Allostatic load #Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research #Birth, Development, and Health #Developmental psychology #Disease #Gerontology #Internal medicine #Medicine #Mental health #Neuroscience #Psychiatry #Psychology #Stress Responses and Cortisol

paper · doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.08.019

published in Physiology & Behavior 106(1), 29-39 (Elsevier BV)

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