Reduced hippocampal volume and lower
cortisol response to stressors have been demonstrated as features of and risk factors for PTSD, Raper says.
Differential associations between behavioral and
cortisol responses to a stressor in securely versus insecurely attached infants.
Although some prior work has shown that anxious attachment is associated with increased
cortisol response to stressors [31], other work has shown that anxious attachment is associated with decreased cortisol response when these people are also avoidantly attached [32].
Not exact matches
Jansen J, Beijers R, Riksen - Walraven M, de Weerth C. Does maternal care - giving behavior modulate the
cortisol response to an acute
stressor in 5 - week - old human infants?
Samples of saliva was also collected before and after the
stressor to check children's
cortisol levels, a biological marker of the body's stress
response.
While a little spike of
cortisol is good in
response to short - term
stressors, it starts
to become a problem when the body starts making too much, too often.
• Stress reduction:
Cortisol, the primary glucocorticoid «stress hormone,» releases glucose in
response to acute
stressors.25 In our hyper - stressful modern environment, our bodies almost always perceive dire threats all around us.
With intense or repeated
stressors over time, the immune system can become less sensitive
to cortisol making it more difficult
to regulate the inflammatory
response.
Children exposed
to institutional rearing exhibited reduced SNS activation
to social
stressors, blunted vagal withdrawal
to a nonsocial
stressor, and blunted
cortisol reactivity, indicating a consistent pattern of reduced engagement of stress
response systems
to environmental challenges following early psychosocial deprivation.
Increased
cortisol responses were predicted in men exposed
to an out - group
stressor (inflammatory speech / funeral protest) following MS induction and in females exposed
to cues of infant distress (i.e., crying).
Mortality salience may enhance coalitionary ties and prepare males for aggressive
responses to an out - group, perhaps in part, due
to modulation of
cortisol and other hormones implicated in reactivity
to social
stressors, such as testosterone.
This study examined sex differences in salivary
cortisol responses to experimental
stressors and subsequent desire
to affiliate in the context of mortality cues following the Tend - and - Befriend model.
As such, increased
cortisol responses following MS induction are predicted in men exposed
to out - group
stressors (i.e., inflammatory speech) and in females exposed
to cues of infant distress (i.e., crying).
Stress generation effects were moderated by
cortisol responses to a laboratory psychosocial
stressor, such that individuals with higher
cortisol responses exhibited a pattern consistent with the depression autonomy model, whereas individuals with lower
cortisol responses showed a pattern more consistent with the depression sensitization model.