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Professor Astrid Linthorst | |
Post(s): | Professor of Neuroscience and Deputy Head of School, Bristol Medical School (THS) |
Areas of expertise: | My research group investigates neurochemical and neuroendocrine mechanisms in the brain that support coping with stress.... |
Keywords: | serotonin | noradrenaline | GABA | stress | hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis | autonomic nervous system | hippocampus | exercise |
Dr John Potokar | |
Post(s): | Consultant Senior Lecturer, Bristol Medical School (PHS) |
Areas of expertise: | Stress has been called the "common cold of the psyche". When excessive or overwhelming it can cause both physical and psychiatric... |
Keywords: | stress | psychiatric morbidity | neurobiology | anxiety disorders | serotonin | social phobia | depression |
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