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Neurobiology
20
Aug

Children’s Health in the Digital Age

August 20, 2020
Dresp-Langley B. Children’s Health in the Digital Age. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020;17(9):3240. Published 2020 May 6. doi:10.3390/ijerph17093240 Abstract Environmental studies, metabolic research, and state of the art research in neurobiology point towards the reduced amount of natural day and sunlight exposure of the developing child, as a consequence of increasingly long hours spent...
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22
Dec

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis as a substrate for stress resilience: Interactions with the circadian clock.

December 22, 2019
Front Neuroendocrinol. 2019 Dec 18:100819. doi: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2019.100819. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract Stress, primarily processed via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, engages biological pathways throughout the brain and body which promote adaptation and survival to changing environmental demands. Adaptation to environmental challenges is compromised when these pathways are no longer functioning optimally. The physiological and behavioral mechanisms...
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