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Appropriate endocrine parameters have been proposed as ‘markers’ of coping or non-coping situations. This is due to the fact that hormonal profiles can be concomitant with, or influenced by, discrete behavioural situations. Those changes are functional and adaptive, in the sense that they participate in the adaptation of metabolic parameters to environmental challenges. In that case, they are readily reversible. A temporary imbalance tends to become chronic only when the challenge leads to a non-coping response; in that case it is accompanied by lasting changes in the endocrine regulation of central and peripheral functions. Such prolonged deviations from ‘normal’ hormonal profiles are sometimes considered as ‘vectors of somatisation’, and their assessment has thus been proposed as predictive indices, of peripheral pathologies associated with coping impairment.
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Kordon, C. (1988). Hypothalamo-hypophyseal Mechanisms Involved in the Regulation of Hormones and Behaviour. In: Briley, M., Fillion, G. (eds) New Concepts in Depression. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09506-3_22
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