Bruce McEwen: 2010 S4SN Conference

Neuroscience Perspectives of Stress and Brain and Body Health: Importance of the Social Environment

Bruce McEwen
The Rockefeller University

The brain is the central organ of stress because it interprets what is stressful and also determines health behaviors and physiological responses to stressors. Besides major life events, the aggravations of daily life, created in large part by our social environment, elevate activities of physiological systems so as to cause wear and tear on the brain and body.

http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/faculty/abstract.php?id=109