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- Title
Pituitary-Adrenal and Automatic Responses to Stress in Women After Sexual and Physical Abuse in Childhood.
- Abstract
Presents a report focused on the response to stress by women who have been victims of sexual or physical abuse in childhood. Statistics regarding depression and suicide rates among abuse victims; Determination that early-life stress results in a persistent sensitization of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to mind stress; Design and setting; Participants; Measures; Results and conclusions.
- Subjects
ABUSE of women; SEXUAL abuse victims; CHILD abuse -- Social aspects; MENTAL depression -- Social aspects; SUICIDE statistics; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000, Vol 284, Issue 5, p592
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.284.5.592