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Biologiczne podstawy emocji. Rola stresu w regulacji procesu dojrzewania
Biological basis of emotions. Stress' role in puberty process regulation

Author(s): Maria Dorota Czajkowska-Majewska
Subject(s): Developmental Psychology, Neuropsychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

Summary/Abstract: Emotions are fundamental functions of mammalian brain, essential for survival of an individual, a group and a species, they have biological basis and are mediated by a variety of neurotransmitters and neurohormones acting on specific brain structures. Stress is state of disturbed homeostasis, which generates a spectrum of adaptive physiological reactions in an organism, which promote individual’s survival or survival of a species. One such adaptive mechanism includes control by stress (via stress hormones) of reproductive functions by either delaying or accelerating puberty.

  • Issue Year: 6/2008
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 53-57
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish