Diego Pizzagalli, PhD, director, Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research and professor of psychiatry, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts. He is a coauthor of the study titled, “Distinct Trajectories of Cortisol Response to Prolonged Acute Stress Are Linked to Affective Responses and Hippocampal Gray Matter Volume in Healthy Females,” published in The Journal of Neuroscience.
Surprising new finding on stress: Too little cortisol is just as bad as too much!