Sentence examples for distress response from inspiring English sources
Release of the hormone cortisol represents a distress response to novel or stressful situations.
A second behavioral profile, expressed by increased movement, closing of the eyes, an increase in heart rate, and crying, usually arises in response to hunger or discomfort and is a distress response to physical privation.
"Although our study cannot determine the exact underlying mechanism operative in dogs, the subjects' physiological measures taken during the study allowed us to counter the alternative hypothesis of yawning as a distress response.
When they then gave the animals a compound that blocked substance P, they found that it also blocked the distress response.
The assessment of neurodevelopment across the first 15 days after birth indicates a significant depressive effect of CPF on pup behavior after day 10th of postnatal life that concerns both distress response to isolation from the mother and motor skills.
We previously showed that a short course of stress management training decreased the subjective distress response and stress-induced cortisol levels in patients with RA at a follow-up assessment, and especially in those patients psychologically at risk [ 5].
"Most of these side effects are the result of emotional distress responses," explains Dr. Maureen Malin, a geriatric psychiatrist with Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital.
Thus, we see these specific items, along with associated moral distress responses, as being a measure of 'empathic arousal'.
The similarity of Impact and Distress responses from Thai participants contrasts with Australians, who were able to distinguish the direct impact (function) of their health condition and the distress (emotional response to loss of function) caused by it.
Parent subjective appraisals of the illness, and the life threat to their child appear to be critical factors associated with parent distress responses [ 10, 20, 37].
In these studies, also non-pregnancy related variables are predictors of distress responses (e.g. poor marital relationship and poor social networks) [ 5], [ 6].
