The brain is at the center of a complex physiological process orchestrating secretion of stress hormones. Integration of the stress response occurs by way of a defined array of central stress-integrative neurons, which initiate a neuroendocrine cascade resulting in steroid secretion by the adrenal glands.
The Stress Neurobiology laboratory is geared toward examining the relationship between the physiological actions of central nervous system stress circuits, stress hormone secretion, affective disease states and neuronal aging.

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