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Introduction
Reaction of the body to deleterious forces, infections & abnormal states that disturb homeostasis.
Laboratory
- increased serum IL-6[2]
Diagnostic procedures
- investigational MRI[2]
- during social stress, activation of the amygdala correlates with the size of the city in which a person resides
- activation of a part of the cingulate cortex correlates with upbringing in a large city[2]
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References
- ↑ Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lederbogen F et al. City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans. Nature 2011 Jun 23; 474:498. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21697947
Kennedy DP and Adolphs R. Social neuroscience: Stress and the city. Nature 2011 Jun 23; 474:452. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21697937