How Stressful Is Maternity? Study about Cortisol and Dehydroepiandrosterone-Sulfate Coat and Claws Concentrations in Female Dogs from Mating to 60 Days Post-Partum by Jasmine Fusi, Tanja Peric, Monica Probo, Alessio Cotticelli, Massimo Faustini, Maria Cristina Veronesi

“…In dogs, the phase from mating to the end of weaning lasts about 120 days and encompasses many aspects that, interacting, contribute to increase the allostatic load. The coat and claws, useful for long-term change assessments, have the advantage of being collectable without invasiveness. …”
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Acute exercise as active inference in chronic musculoskeletal pain, effects on gait kinematics and muscular activity in patients and healthy participants: a study protocol for a ra... by Andreas Monnier, Björn O Äng, Paul Enthoven, Linda Vixner, Veronica Sjöberg, Jens Westergren, Riccardo LoMartire, Roger G Nyberg, David Moulaee Conradsson

“…In view of an active inference framework, and resting on the concept of allostasis, human movement per se becomes a prerequisite for health and well-being while chronic pain becomes a sign of a system unable to attenuate an allostatic load. Previous studies on different subgroups of chronic pain conditions have demonstrated alterations in gait kinematics and muscle activity, indicating shared disturbances in the motor system from long-term allostatic load. …”
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Psychiatric aspects of burn by Dalal P, Saha Rahul, Agarwal Manu

“…Studies have shown that greater levels of acute pain are associated with negative long-term psychological effects such as acute stress disorder, depression, suicidal ideation, and post-traumatic stress disorder for as long as 2 years after the initial burn injury. The concept of allostatic load is presented as a potential explanation for the relationship between acute pain and subsequent psychological outcomes. …”
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GROWTH OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS OF AGING AND ALLOSTASIS IN VETERANS OF THE AFGHAN WAR CONFLICT WITH EARLY FORMS OF CHRONIC BRAIN ISCHEMIA by D. Sh. Altman, E. V. Davydova, N. G. Kochetkova, A. V. Zurochka

“…The study established acceleration of aging according to biological age indicators, earlier clinical onset of early forms of chronic cerebrovascular diseases associated with the processes of posttraumatic disregulation of cerebral and systemic vascular tone, the accumulation of "allostatic load” in the form of hypercortisolemia, growth regulator and angiogenic cytokines in veterans of the Afghan conflict.…”
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Psychiatric aspects of burn by P. K. Dalal, Rahul Saha, Manu Agarwal

“…Studies have shown that greater levels of acute pain are associated with negative long-term psychological effects such as acute stress disorder, depression, suicidal ideation, and post-traumatic stress disorder for as long as 2 years after the initial burn injury. The concept of allostatic load is presented as a potential explanation for the relationship between acute pain and subsequent psychological outcomes. …”
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Toward a conceptual framework of health and its operational definition: an application in the 1958 British birth cohort by Camille Joannès, Hélène Colineaux, Gregory Guernec, Raphaële Castagné, Michelle Kelly-Irving

“…An overall health measure was constructed via the sum of three selected indicators of deteriorating health reserves in mid-life: chronic widespread pain (CWP), Clinical Interview Schedule - revised (CIS-r), and allostatic load (AL). A three-category variable was defined: impaired/medium/optimal overall health. …”
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Early Adversity and Accelerated Brain Aging: A Mini-Review by Pratik R. Chaudhari, Aastha Singla, Vidita A. Vaidya

“…Early adversity is hypothesized to evoke an “allostatic load” via an influence on several of the key physiological processes that define the trajectory of healthy brain aging. …”
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Filial caregiving is associated with greater neuroendocrine dysfunction: Evidence from the 2005 National Survey of Midlife in the United States by SunWoo Kang, Nadine F Marks

“…Objectives: This study examined associations between providing caregiving for a biological or adoptive parent and clinically assessed biological risk factors (allostatic load and its three subscales—inflammatory dysfunction, metabolic dysfunction, and neuroendocrine dysfunction), as well as moderation of these associations by gender. …”
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Borderline Personality Disorder in a “Life History Theory” Perspective: Evidence for a Fast “Pace-of-Life-Syndrome” by Benjamin Otto, Lisa Kokkelink, Martin Brüne

“…Ninety-five women (44 diagnosed with BPD) were recruited to examine psychological correlates of PoLS, including life history features, personality dimensions, aggressiveness, chronic stress, borderline symptom severity, childhood trauma, and allostatic load (AL). In line with expectations, BPD patients had significantly higher scores suggestive of a fast PoLS than controls, they were more aggressive, more burdened with chronic stress and were exposed to more severe childhood adversity. …”
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Healthy Places by Keith Diaz Moore

“…Here it is asserted that the concepts and models of allostatic load, salutogenesis and cumulative (dis)advantage hold great promise for connecting Healthy Place Research to robust fields of health inquiry.…”
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Childhood trauma and the enduring consequences of forcibly separating children from parents at the United States border by Martin H. Teicher

“…Studies of epigenetics, inflammation and allostatic load are similarly enhancing our awareness of the molecular mechanisms underpinning the long-term consequences of traumatic stress. …”
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Neurobiological and Systemic Effects of Chronic Stress by Bruce S. McEwen

“…The brain is the central organ of stress and adaptation to stress because it perceives and determines what is threatening, as well as the behavioral and physiological responses to the stressor, which promote adaptation (“allostasis”) but also contribute to pathophysiology (“allostatic load/overload”) when overused and dysregulated. …”
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Epidemiology, ethics and managing risks for physiological and behavioural stability of animals during long distance transportation by David B. Adams, Peter M. Thornber

“…A 'one medicine' approach is emphasised and the depiction of stress as the cost of adaptation to stressors or the allostatic load is introduced to illuminate the challenges confronting transported animals. …”
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Inter-individual differences in pain anticipation and pain perception in migraine: Neural correlates of migraine frequency and cortisol-to-dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) r... by Gyöngyi Kökönyei, Attila Galambos, Natália Kocsel, Edina Szabó, Andrea Edit Édes, Kinga Gecse, Dániel Baksa, Dorottya Pap, Lajos R Kozák, György Bagdy, Gabriella Juhász

“…Both results suggest exaggerated preparatory responses to pain or more general to stressors, which may contribute to the allostatic load caused by stressors and migraine attacks on the brain.…”
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Applications of psychoneuroimmunology models of toxic stress in prevention and intervention efforts across early development by Marin M. Kautz

“…But further research is needed to validate and scale developmentally appropriate interventions with specific immune and endocrine mechanism-based targets that are developmentally sensitive. The allostatic load and additive PNI models of toxic stress exposure in youth are summarized. …”
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Amygdala Allostasis and Early Life Adversity: Considering Excitotoxicity and Inescapability in the Sequelae of Stress by Jamie L. Hanson, Brendon M. Nacewicz

“…We believe integrative models of stress neurodevelopment, grounded in “allostatic load,” will help resolve inconsistencies in the impact of ELA on the amygdala. …”
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The Part of the Primary Care Provider in our National Awakening to Systemic Racism by Katie Chaucer, Monika DeTurk

“… [3] Duru, O. Kenrik, et al. "Allostatic load burden and racial disparities in mortality." …”
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Allostatic adaptation and personalized physiological trade-offs in the circadian regulation of the HPA axis: A mathematical modeling approach by Rohit Rao, Ioannis P. Androulakis

“…However, such allostatic adaptation results in a physiological cost (allostatic load) that might impair the homeostatic stress-responsive and synchronizing functions of the HPA axis. …”
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Untapped potential of physiology, behaviour and immune markers to predict range dynamics and marginality by Susanne Shultz, Jake A. Britnell, Nicholas Harvey

“…We propose a Functional Marginality framework where relative changes in allostatic load, reproductive health, and behavior can be scaled up to evidence and establish causation of macroecological processes such as local extirpation, colonization, population dynamics, and range dynamics. …”
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Integrated neuroimmune processing of threat, injury, and illness: An ecological framework mapping social alienation onto lifetime health vulnerability by Andrew R. Harvey

“…By reviewing the ecological relationships between emotional threat, tissue dyshomeostasis and injury, infection, pain, and mood this article explores not only how primeval somatic responses underpin the evolutionary foundations of depression and somatisation, but also links them to escalating physical non-communicable disease through archived socioeconomic adversity (allostatic load). Social alienation (in the absence of trauma) may prime and activate this ancient repertoire in which sensitised responses lay the foundation for persistent maladaptive states of aversive sensory misinterpretation, behavioural avoidance, anhedonia, and neuroinflammation presenting as widespread non-nociceptive pain, non-pain somatisation, and severe depression. …”
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