A new animal welfare concept based on allostasis
Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior
Keywords: allostasis, allostatic load, allostatic state, animal welfare, disease, homeostasis, stress
2007
Actions of glucocorticoids at a seasonal baseline as compared to stress-related levels in the regulation of periodic life processes
Publication/Journal: General and Comparative Endocrinology
Keywords: activity, allostasis, corticosterone, energy metabolism, food intake, glucocorticosteroids, life history, predictable demands, seasonal baseline, stress, unpredictable perturbations
2006
The Darwinian concept of stress: benefits of allostasis and costs of allostatic load and the trade-offs in health and disease
Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Keywords: allostasis, allostatic load, allostatic state, amygdala, atypical depression, birds, brain, chronic fatigue, coping, darwin, doves, evolution, evolutionary stable strategy, fight–flight, freeze–hide, hawks, hippocampus, human, locus coeruleus, melancholic depression, natural selection, prefrontal cortex, psychosis, rat, stress
2005