We don't yet know what the Baton Rouge officers' defense will be, but, given the precedents, we can imagine it: this was a hair-trigger, stressful situation.
The Triggers Stressful situations might include a combination of family obligations, work commitments, gift-giving expectations, traveling, shopping and cooking within a six-week window all which add to a perfect storm of stress and conflict.
Regarding this point, impaired mRNA turnover and stability are shown to play a critical role in the activation of specific genes during the cellular response to mitogens, immunological triggers stressful stimuli and differentiation agents (Bashirullah et al, 2001; Fan et al, 2002).
Among common triggers are stressful events, injury to the skin, a strep throat and certain medications, including lithium, antimalarial drugs, some beta-blockers (used to treat high blood pressure), overuse of corticosteroids and even nicotine patches.
People with a version of the gene that produces less of the enzyme tend to be significantly more impulsive and aggressive, but, as Ms. Moffitt and her colleague (and husband) Avshalom Caspi discovered, the effect of the gene is triggered by stressful experiences.
It is suggested that without a longitudinal design that allows a control for previous symptom levels, it is exceedingly difficult to differentiate if current depressive symptoms simply are a continuation of previous symptoms or triggered by stressful life circumstances encountered.
"Losing it" refers to those fast, automatic reactions to a perceived threat which can be triggered in stressful interactions with our child.
New research says being kinder to you at the very least helps suppress hot flashes, which might be triggered by stressful situations.
For some, talking about what happened can be "triggering and stressful," she conceded, but added that she feels "a really cathartic reclaiming of power by speaking up about it".
Surgery damages tissue and triggers a stressful wound healing response.
The components of these changes are responses of integrated ROS gene network triggered under stressful conditions.
