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The stress-vulnerability model how does stress impact on mental illness at the level of the brain and what are the consequences?
Psychiatria Danubina - 1 Jun 2010
Goh Cindy, Agius Mark
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INTRODUCTION: The stress -vulnerability model (Zubin et al. 1977) is an extremely useful model for identifying and treating relapses of mental illness. We accept that human persons carry genetic and other predisposition to mental illness. However, the question arises as to how stress impacts on a person in order to cause mental illness to develop. Furthermore there arises the issue as to what other effects such...
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