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Personality, Physique and the Adrenocortical Response to a Psychological Stress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. K. Bridges  and
M. T. Jones
P. K. Bridges
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, W.C.1
M. T. Jones
Affiliation:
Sherrington School of Physiology, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, S.E.1
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There have been a number of studies attempting to quantify anxiety under stress, using biochemical measures such as plasma Cortisol concentration and urinary catecholamine excretion as concomitants of the emotional response. A limitation of some of this work has been the lack of predictable and adequate stresses studied, which have included disturbing interviews (Bliss et al., 1956), admission to hospital and anticipation of operation (Mason, 1959), stressful films (Levi, 1965) and hypnotically induced anxiety (Persky et at., 1959).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 499 , June 1967 , pp. 601 - 605
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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