Stress Resilience: Molecular and Behavioral Aspects

Stress Resilience: Molecular and Behavioral Aspects presents the first reference available on the full-breadth of cutting-edge research being carried out in this field. It includes a wide range of basic molecular knowledge on the potential associations between resilience phenomenon and biochemical balance, but also focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying stress resilience. World-renowned experts provide chapters that cover everything from the neural circuits of resilience, the effects of early-life adversity, and the transgenerational inheritance of resilience.

This unique and timely book will be a go-to resource for neuroscientists and biological psychiatrists who want to improve their understanding of the consequences of stress and on how some people are able to avoid it.

Approaches resilience as a process rather than as a static traitProvides basic molecular knowledge on the potential associations between resilience phenomenon and biochemical balancePresents thorough coverage of both the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to resilience

1. A life-course, epigenetic perspective on resilience in brain and body
2. Cognitive and behavioral components of resilience to stress
3. Resilience as a process instead of a trait
4. The brain mineralocorticoid receptor: A resilience factor for psychopathology?
5. GABAB receptors and stress resilience: A tale of two isoforms
6. Sex differences in the programming of stress resilience
7. Active resilience in response to traumatic stress
8. Rhythms of stress resilience
9. Mitochondrial function and stress resilience
10. Understanding resilience: Biological approaches in at-risk populations
11. Stress resilience as a consequence of early-life adversity
12. Mechanisms by which early-life experiences promote enduring stress resilience or vulnerability
13. Child abuse and neglect: Stress responsivity and resilience
14. How genes and environment interact to shape risk and resilience to stress-related psychiatric disorders
15. Molecular characterization of the resilient brain: Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms
16. The role of the CRF-Urocortin system in stress resilience
17. Intergenerational transmission of stress vulnerability and resilience
18. stress and its effects across generations
19. Corticolimbic stress-regulatory circuits, hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical adaptation and resilience
20. Biomarkers of resilience and susceptibility in rodent models of stress
21. Maladaptive learning and the amygdala - prefrontal circuit
22. Endocannabinoid signaling and stress resilience