Neurobiology of Stress: Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Approaches

The book serves as an introduction to an interdisciplinary course on the study of stress. It will help students and professionals in the field of mental health understand the main neurobiological and psychological causes and consequences of stress on humans. The concept of stress is explored comprehensively here: from the impact of environmental stressors to the processing of anxiety signals in the brain; from the neural mechanisms involved in such processing to the formation of adaptive responses to stress. All neural processes are explained at different levels of complexity: from the neurobiological (including cellular and molecular mechanisms) to the psychological (covering cognitive and emotional processing with subsequent behavioral reactions).