Browsing by Subject "stress"
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Characterizing Stress-Induced Outer Membrane Vesicle Production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(2013)As an opportunistic Gram-negative pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa must be able to adapt to changes and survive stressors in its environment during the course of infection. To aid survival in the hostile host environment, ... -
Childhood bullying involvement predicts low-grade systemic inflammation into adulthood.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014-05-27)Bullying is a common childhood experience that involves repeated mistreatment to improve or maintain one's status. Victims display long-term social, psychological, and health consequences, whereas bullies display minimal ... -
GxE = ‘p’? Using Hierarchical Measures of Psychopathology to Capture the Effects of Environmental Stressors and Gene-Environment Interplay
(2019)Exposure to psychosocial stress is a robust predictor of subsequent psychopathology. However, only a portion of individuals with these experiences will develop psychiatric symptoms. The concept of gene-environment interaction ... -
Invited Commentary: Cassel's "The Contribution of the Social Environment to Host Resistance"-A Modern Classic.
(Am J Epidemiol, 2017-06-01)John Cassel's 1976 paper "The Contribution of the Social Environment to Host Resistance" (Am J Epidemiol. 1976;104(2):107-123) is widely regarded as a classic in epidemiology. He makes the compelling argument that the quality ... -
Lack of Association of a Functional Polymorphism in the Serotonin Receptor Gene With Body Mass Index and Depressive Symptoms in a Large Meta-Analysis of Population Based Studies.
(Frontiers in genetics, 2018-01)The serotonin receptor 5-HTR2C is thought to be involved in the function of multiple brain structures. Consequently, the HTR2C gene has been studied extensively with respect to its association with a variety of phenotypes. ... -
MicroRNA Function in Cellular Stress Response
(2012)MicroRNAs are key post-transcriptional regulators that have been found to play critical roles in the regulation of cellular functions. There is an emerging concept that microRNAs may be just as essential for fine-tuning ... -
Nutritional Control of L1 Arrest and Recovery in Caenorhabditis elegans by Insulin-like Peptides and Signaling
(2014)Animals must coordinate development with fluctuating nutrient availability. Nutrient availability governs post-embryonic development in Caenorhabditis elegans: larvae that hatch in the absence of food do not initiate ... -
Stress, Coping, Mental Health, and Reproductive Health among Adolescent Girls Transitioning through Puberty in Tanzania
(2021)Adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa must transition through puberty in the context of heightened risk for reproductive tract infections and mental illness. At the same time, girls experience menstrual stigma and a lack ... -
Stressed People Don’t Pay It Forward: The Detrimental Effect of Stress on Generalized Reciprocity
(2023-04)Generalized reciprocity, where individuals help others who can pay forward the generosity they receive to a third party, is common in a variety of settings, including workplaces. Stress is omnipresent in these contexts and ... -
The Use of Task-Sharing to Improve Treatment Engagement in an Online Mindfulness Intervention for Stress among Chinese College Students
(2018)Traditional in-person psychotherapies are proving incapable of addressing mental health needs globally. Computer-based interventions are one promising solution to closing the large gap between mental health treatment need ... -
Worried Sick: The Impact of Students’ Stress Mindsets on Health and Academic Performance
(2019-04)The goal of this study was to evaluate how beliefs about stress as enhancing versus debilitating, also known as stress mindsets, relate to health and academic performance in an undergraduate sample. College students (n=499) ...
