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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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Gender differences in stress response: Role of developmental and biological determinants
Rohit Verma1, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara2, Chandra Shekhar Gupta3
1 Department of Psychiatry, PGIMER and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Psychiatry, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India
3 Department of Psychiatry, Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Yatan Pal Singh Balhara
Department of Psychiatry, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi 110029
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0972-6748.98407
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Stress response is associated with manifestations of various psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders. Hence, it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms that influence this association. Moreover, men and women tend to react differently with stress-both psychologically and biologically. These differences also need to be studied in order to have a better understanding in the gender difference observed for many disorders, which are likely to be contributed by the gender difference in stress reactivity and responses. Such an understanding would have a significant impact on our understanding about how adult health is set during early life and how adult disease could be prevented in men and women. |
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