How the Acute Psychosocial Stress Response Ends: A Post-Stressor Transition Model of Glucocorticoid Feedback, Vagal Re-Engagement, and Frontolimbic Context Updating.
Liu C, Zheng R, Wu Y et al.International journal of molecular sciences
Objective stressor offset does not mark a common onset of recovery: cardiovascular activation may be waning while cortisol is still rising and threat-related cognition persists. This structured narrative review integrates molecular, autonomic, neural, cognitive, and immune evidence on the post-stressor interval, primarily in…