Comparing and Contrasting Two of the Four Models of Stress
This essay aims to compare and contrast two of the four models of stress; Hans Selye’s (1907-1982) general adaptation syndrome (GAS) and Mowrer (1939) avoidance model. Firstly, the author will give ...
Theory of Caregiver Stress and its Practice in Nursing
Tsai (2003) developed the Theory of Caregiver Stress based on the Roy Adaptation Model to identify the caregiver’s response, perceptions, and adaptations to the stress and burden that primary ...
Microbial Stress: From Model Organisms to Applications in Food, Microbiotechnology and Medicine
Contributions from methodological and functional studies on model microorganisms ... adaptive responses in microbial stress, structure-function relationships in stress adaptation, acid stress, OMICS ...
Animal models of anxiety disorders and stress
The development of animal models of anxiety and stress has helped to identify the pharmacological mechanisms and potential clinical effects of several drugs. Animal models of anxiety are based on ...
Adaptation to Changing Environments
This module examines how organisms detect and respond to changes in their environment, and reviews the different behavioural, physiological and molecular mechanisms underpinning environmental (stress) ...
The endurance athletes heart: acute stress and chronic adaptation
The heart of the endurance athlete is placed under great stress during training and competition. Cardiac adaptation to exercise training encompasses morphological, functional and electrical changes ...
Detecting genetic responses to environmental change
Recent theoretical models of adaptation have highlighted that a ... present across organisms for dealing with environmental stresses. Perhaps the best example involves the heat shock proteins ...
Current research projects
In this project, using the giant duckweed – one of the fastest growing angiosperm plants, as a model system, we aim to investigate the process, mechanisms and consequences of adaptation to individual ...
The neurobiology of stress and gastrointestinal disease
suggest a top down model, in which the alterations in the central stress circuits in predisposed individuals are triggered by pathological exteroceptive stressors and play a primary role in ...
An Update on Brassinosteroids: Homeostasis, Crosstalk, and Adaptation to Environmental Stress, Volume II
the interconnection of the brassinosteroid signalosome with phytohormonal and stress signaling pathways, and the brassinosteroid-mediated adaptation of plants to environmental conditions. The Research ...
Neural adaptation
Helmholtz theorized that perceptual adaptation might result from a process he referred to as unconscious inference, where the mind unconsciously adopts certain rules in order to make sense of what is ...
How the agriculture industry must adapt to megadrought in the West: Experts
The industry that overwhelmingly uses the most water resources in the West does so for good reason: to provide sustenance for the rest of the country.
