Stress, rejection, and hormones: Cortisol and progesterone reactivity to laboratory speech and rejection tasks in women and men [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/4l7]

Stress and social rejection have important impacts on health. Among the mechanisms implicated are hormonal systems such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which produces cortisol in humans. Current research employs speech stressors and social rejection stressors to understand hormonal...

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Main Authors: Allison E. Gaffey, Michelle M. Wirth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: F1000 Research Ltd 2014-10-01
Series:F1000Research
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Online Access:http://f1000research.com/articles/3-208/v2

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