The cumulative science linking stress to negative health outcomes is vast. Stress can affect directly, through autonomic and neuroendocrine responses, but also indirectly, changes in behaviors. In this review, we present a brief overview of ( a) why should be interested the context health; b) response allostatic load; c) some key biological mechanisms which impacts health, such as by influencin...

This article reviews 4 aspects of developmental-psychobiological metatheory that are of particular relevance to developmental conceptions of neuropsychology: probabilistic epigenesis, the various roles of experience in affecting the development of the nervous system, and the developmental principles of equifinality and equipotentiality, the latter being especially pertinent to the understanding...

This article presents results of two research studies which focus on the analyses of specific needs associated with members of a delinquent subculture and the psychological alterations which occur as a result of adaptation to their imprisonment. In the first case, the specificity and differences in the area of needs were determined by content analysis of prison correspondence and further by mea...