Lost in translation: Challenges for translational research in the field of stress and cognition.

Exposure to an adverse environment often compromises an individual ’s well-being and poses long-term risk for mental and physical disorders. These adverse effects are thought to be mediated by a set of general (stressor non-specific) psychological, biological, and behavioral mechanisms, referred to as “stress” or the “stress-response”. The mechanistic/cau sative link between the stressors (environmental agents causing stress), the stress response, and changes taking place in the organism, has been a topic of vigorous investigations for physicians, psychologists, biologists, and social scientists for nearly a century.
Source: Biological Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research