Category: Researcher Profiles
... how environmental factors such as immune activation and chronic stress cause the loss of neurons and serious neurodegenerative ... disorders, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Stress biology: Understanding the negative impact of chronic stress. Development and implementation of reliable clinical assessments ...
Category: Research
... as corticotrophin releasing factor (CRH), is important in the normal stress response and expression in the placenta has been shown to be ... including intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and maternal stress are also a research focus for the Mothers and Babies Research ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... on the brain pathways that are involved in motivated behaviours and stress. We study the basic wiring of circuits controlling the activity ... more prone to pathologies of motivational state, such as addiction or stress, than others. Why did you get into research? I was initially ... cells communicate and how this communication can be corrupted by stress and addictive subtances. We work closely with other members of ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
What are your research interests? Understanding the impact of stress in early life on long term brain development Uncovering biomarkers of stress to identify which babies have experienced stress events during pregnancy Improving long term offspring behavioural ...
Category: News & Articles
Your skin may provide an early identification of stress, anxiety and depression before symptoms even present themselves. ... the surface of your skin may be the answer to early identification of stress, anxiety and depression before symptoms even present themselves, ... lead author, Associate Professor Eugene Nalivaiko. “We can measure stress response with body sensors, the simplest being a skin conductance ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... within the body, such as adrenaline and dopamine) in response to stress. Stress induces the activation of specific nerves and this can be ... and endocrine tissues and especially on protein phosphorylation. Stress, Parkinson's disease, Tyrosine Hydroxylase Phosphorylation ...
Category: News & Articles
Researchers are calling for the inclusion of regular mental health assessments in fertility treatment guidelines and ongoing support after research shows that fertility problems contribute to women’s psychological distress, even if the fertility issues are resolved.
Category: Researcher Profiles
... fever. The group were further able to demonstrate that anxiety and stress levels, cognitive deficits and fatigue are high even early in the ... of disease? How frequent are symptoms like memory deficits, fatigue, stress, anxiety and depression in MS? What can we do about them? How ... multiple sclerosis, epigenetics, neuroimmunology, cognition, MS, MRI, stress, anxiety, sun exposure, glandular fever, smoking, memory ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... culture – co-cultures of these Modelling compressive and shear stress forces Viral infection Lung biobanking Affiliations HMRI VIVA ...