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The Orexin/Hypocretin System and Stress and Emotion

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The Orexin/Hypocretin System

Part of the book series: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience ((CCNE))

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Stress induces changes in higher nervous functions such as depression, sleep/wakefulness, and feeding behaviour. It also induces emotional changes such as fear as well as changes in autonomic nervous functions such as increased heart rate and arterial blood pressure and endocrine responses, in particular activation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.

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    Yoichi Ueta MD, PhD & Hiroaki Fujihara PhD

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    Seiji Nishino MD, PhD

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    Takeshi Sakurai MD, PhD

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Ueta, Y., Fujihara, H. (2006). The Orexin/Hypocretin System and Stress and Emotion. In: Nishino, S., Sakurai, T. (eds) The Orexin/Hypocretin System. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-950-8:131

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