A mathematical model suggests that existing HPA-targeting drugs failed in clinical trials for mood disorders because the ...

Better book a session with your therapist — yet another painful consequence of your parents’ divorce has emerged.

Maternal stress hormone levels during early pregnancy can have a lasting effect on the stress system of the offspring. The ...

Maternal stress hormone levels during early pregnancy can have a lasting effect on the stress system of the offspring. The results of a long-term study on wild Assamese macaques in Thailand indicate ...

Children undergo extreme stress amid parents' divorce, even making them more susceptible to stroke when they turn adults, as ...

Early prenatal but not postnatal glucocorticoid exposure is associated with enhanced HPA axis activity into adulthood in a ...

A study published in PLOS One reveals that children of divorced parents face a higher risk of stroke later in life, even ...

A second research interest of the laboratory is to understand the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie the sex differences in the function of the adult hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.

Adrenal steroidogenesis is under the control of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis. Furthermore, metabolic factors including insulin and obesity-related signals may play a role in ...

Corticosteroid therapy must be tapered because of its interactions with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts ...