How Stress Takes a Physical Toll, Explained in Neural Circuits (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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How Stress Takes a Physical Toll, Explained in Neural Circuits (1 of 2)

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Authors discovered a "mind-body" neural connection in the brain that drives a variety of responses to psychological stress. This connection constitutes a key part of the psychosomatic brain circuit by which stress and emotion affect the sympathetic and somatic motor systems. DP/DTT: dorsal peduncular cortex and dorsal tenia tecta. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 6 Mar. issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Kataoka at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Nagoya, Japan and colleagues was titled, "A central master driver of psychosocial stress responses in the rat."

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[Credit: Copyright 2020 Department of Integrative Physiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine]

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