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Allostasis, amygdala, and anticipatory angst

Schulkin, Jay, McEwen, Bruce S., Gold, Philip W.·1994·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Regions of the amygdala are involved in anticipation of negative events. Chronic anticipation of negative events leads to what we call allostatic load, or arousal pathology. Two hormones appear to be involved in arousal pathology; corticotropin-releasing hormone in the brain and glucocorticoids. We suggest that increases in corticotropin-releasing hormone, by stress or glucocorticoids, in the amygdala may have functional consequences for allostatic load. Whereas, corticotropin-releasing hormone in the parvocellular region of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus is decreased by glucocorticoids thereby under negative feedback and homeostatic control, the central nucleus of the amygdala is to some extent under positive feedback and is increased by glucocorticoids, and perhaps under allostatic control. The human and animal literature suggest that a variety of psychopathologies (e.g., melancholia) may be tied to neurohormonal signals activating regions of the amygdala.

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  • When a stressful situation is anticipated, individuals make behavioral, cognitive, and physiological adjustments that facilitate the process of coping with the upcoming stressor.

    “Indeed, it has been proposed that, when a stressful situation is anticipated, individuals make behavioral, cognitive, and physiological adjustments that facilitate the process of coping with the upcoming stressor (Pulopulos et al., 2018a;Schulkin, 2011;Schulkin et al., 1994;Turan et al., 2015).”

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Authors
Schulkin, J., McEwen, B. S., & Gold, P. W.
Affiliations
National Institute of Mental Health (US)
Corresponding author
Schulkin, Jay
Venue
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1994-09
Volume
18
Issue
3
Pages
385-396
ISSN
0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1974467694
Cited by
380
References
153
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Keywords
allostasis, allostatic load, amygdala, anticipatory anxiety, corticotropin-releasing factor, glucocorticoids, hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, central amygdala, negative feedback, positive feedback, stress, melancholia, psychopathology, neuroendocrine regulation
MeSH terms
Amygdala, Animals, Anxiety, Homeostasis, Humans

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