Main description:

Stress and Brain Health: In Clinical Conditions, Volume 152, examines up-to-date knowledge on how stress effects brain health. The book's wide-ranging topics include the effects of pre-natal and childhood stress on neurodevelopment and aging. Chapters cover Stress and neuropsychiatric disorders, Stress and schizophrenia, Stress and addictive behaviors, Stress and suicide, Stress as a factor in the progression of PD, Social prescribing for stress-related disorder, and more.

Contents:

Stress, the brain, and trauma spectrum disorders
J. Douglas Bremner and Matthew T. Wittbrodt

Is there neuroinflammation in depression? Understanding the link between the brain and the peripheral immune system in depression
M.A. Nettis and C.M. Pariante

Chronic stress, structural exposures and neurobiological mechanisms: A stimulation, discrepancy and deprivation model of psychosis
Teresa Vargas, Rachel E. Conley and Vijay A. Mittal

The influence of stress and early life adversity on addiction: Psychobiological mechanisms of risk and resilience
Mustafa al'Absi

Stress, cortisol and suicide risk
Daryl B. O'Connor, Nicola Gartland and Rory C. O'Connor

Stress and cortisol in Parkinson's disease
Daniel J. van Wamelen, Yi-Min Wan, K. Ray Chaudhuri and Peter Jenner

The effects of stress on cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease: Physical exercise as a counteract measure
Gema Sanchis-Soler, Juan Tortosa-Martinez, Carmen Manchado-Lopez and Juan Manuel Cortell-Tormo

The intersections of stress, anxiety and epilepsy
Jay A. Salpekar, Trina Basu, Swami Thangaraj and Jamie Maguire

Stress and the vestibular system
Yougan Saman, Qadeer Arshad, Mayank Dutia and Peter Rea

Social prescribing for stress related disorders and brain health

Alison Fixsen and Marie Polley