Stress and Brain Health: In Clinical Conditions, Volume 152, examines up-to-date knowledge on how stress effects brain health. The book's wide-ranging topics include the effects of pre-natal and childhood stress on neurodevelopment and aging. Chapters cover Stress and neuropsychiatric disorders, Stress and schizophrenia, Stress and addictive behaviors, Stress and suicide, Stress as a factor in the progression of PD, Social prescribing for stress-related disorder, and more.
Stress and Brain Health: In Clinical Conditions, Volume 152, examines up-to-date knowledge on how stress effects brain health. The book's wide-ranging topics include the effects of pre-natal and childhood stress on neurodevelopment and aging. Chapters cover Stress and neuropsychiatric disorders, Stress and schizophrenia, Stress and addictive behaviors, Stress and suicide, Stress as a factor in the progression of PD, Social prescribing for stress-related disorder, and more.
Nina Smyth is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, School of Social Sciences, at the University of Westminster, London. Nina's background is in Psychology and Health Psychology, and her research focuses on the physiological pathways linking stress, mental/physical health, aging and longevity in pre-clinical and clinical populations.
For her PhD (University of Westminster), awarded in 2013, she developed optimal ways of measuring cortisol, and examined the relationships between cortisol circadian patterns, well-being and health. In 2017, she became the research lead of the interdisciplinary Psychophysiology and Stress Research Group. Currently, she is developing and evaluating lifestyle interventions to restore cortisol circadian patterns in healthy and clinical populations to prevent the negative impact of stress on health.
Nina has published a good body of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews, and regularly presents her work to diverse audiences. She is a f
ellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Aurora champion, a leadership programme for women in science. She has been awarded funding from the British Academy, the Bial Foundation and the Sir Halley Stewart Trust. Alongside, Bath Spa University, she is currently working on the Challenge Fund HOW (Healthier Outcomes at Work) project, funding by the Department for Work and Pensions and Department for Health and Social Care.
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Stress, the brain, and trauma spectrum disorders
J. Douglas Bremner and Matthew T. Wittbrodt
Is there neuroinflammation in depression? Understanding the link between the brain and the peripheral immune system in depression
M.A. Nettis and C.M. Pariante
Chronic stress, structural exposures and neurobiological mechanisms: A stimulation, discrepancy and deprivation model of psychosis
Teresa Vargas, Rachel E. Conley and Vijay A. Mittal
The influence of stress and early life adversity on addiction: Psychobiological mechanisms of risk and resilience
Mustafa al'Absi
Stress, cortisol and suicide risk
Daryl B. O'Connor, Nicola Gartland and Rory C. O'Connor
Stress and cortisol in Parkinson's disease
Daniel J. van Wamelen, Yi-Min Wan, K. Ray Chaudhuri and Peter Jenner
The effects of stress on cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease: Physical exercise as a counteract measure
Gema Sanchis-Soler, Juan Tortosa-Martínez, Carmen Manchado-Lopez and Juan Manuel Cortell-Tormo
The intersections of stress, anxiety and epilepsy
Jay A. Salpekar, Trina Basu, Swami Thangaraj and Jamie Maguire
Stress and the vestibular system
Yougan Saman, Qadeer Arshad, Mayank Dutia and Peter Rea
Social prescribing for stress related disorders and brain health
