Main goal: To develop appropriate methods for the use of cortisol as a physiologic marker of stress in women of reproductive age Background: Cortisol is commonly used as a marker of physiologic stress ...

Clinicians who are unaware of the pseudocondition may mistake elevated cortisol results for signs of true Cushing syndrome ...

Circadian rhythms, the natural 24-hour cycles of physiological and behavioral ... Awakening not associated with an increased rate of cortisol secretion, Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis controls the secretion of the glucocorticoid hormones (cortisol and corticosterone ... American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism, 296:888-897 ...

non-clinical contexts across reproductive transitions and to evaluate the effects of these interactions on women’s reproductive outcomes 2.To develop basic guidelines for the proper use of cortisol as ...

The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts on the anterior pituitary, where it stimulates the secretion ... reach a physiologic dose equivalent to 20 mg of cortisol ...