Chronic exposure to stress hormones, whether it occurs during the prenatal period, infancy,
childhood, adolescence, adulthood or aging, has an impact on brain structures involved in …

Elevated glucocorticoid levels produce hippocampal dysfunction and correlate with individual
deficits in spatial learning in aged rats. Previously we related persistent cortisol increases …

… Lupien from the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Quebéc.Correspondence
concerning this article should be addressed to Sonia J. Lupien, Laboratory of Human …

The goal of the present study was to determine whether relaxing music (as compared to
silence) might facilitate recovery from a psychologically stressful task. To this aim, changes in …

Cognitive deficits following acute administration of corticosteroids have been described in
experimental animals and humans. In both populations, an inverted-U shape relationship has …

In this review, we report on studies that have assessed the effects of exogenous and endogenous
increases in stress hormones on human cognitive performance. We first describe the …

It is well known that individuals from more advantaged social classes enjoy better mental and
physical health than do individuals within lower classes. Various mechanisms have been …

Background: Individuals with lower socioeconomic status report greater exposure to stressful
life events and a greater impact of these events on their lives than individuals with higher …

The allostatic load model expands the stress-disease literature by proposing a temporal
cascade of multi-systemic physiological dysregulations that contribute to disease trajectories. By …

The cortisol awakening response (CAR), the marked increase in cortisol secretion over the
first 30–45 min after morning awakening, has been related to a wide range of psychosocial, …