Guest Editorial: How stress changes the brain and causes a cluster of uniquely human diseases

The goal of this manuscript is to explain how stress is critically involved in the pathophysiology of a cluster of uniquely human diseases which include migraine headaches, hypertension, metabolic syndrome (obesity), stroke, deep vein thrombosis (DVT)/pulmonary emboli (PE), auto-immune diseases, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer ’s disease, and atherosclerosis. As is familiar to clinicians, some people have several of these diagnoses while other people are apparently healthy and have not a single one—the diseases tend to come as a “package deal”.
Source: Medical Hypotheses - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Tags: Editorial$Author's introduction Source Type: research