Studies // Cited work
Defining stress as a prelude to mapping its neurocircuitry: No help from allostasis
Day, T. A. (2005). Defining stress as a prelude to mapping its neurocircuitry: No help from allostasis.
Level D Theory doi:10.1016/j.pnpbp.2005.08.005
What this study supports
Supports the claim that the concepts of allostasis and allostatic load have been criticised as adding little to an accurate reading of homeostasis. One critical position, cited as a counterpoint.
- Who was studied
- Not applicable: a conceptual critique.
- Design
- Theory
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
TheoreticalLevel DConfidence HIGH
The concepts of allostasis and allostatic load have been criticised as adding little to an accurate understanding of homeostasis and as blurring the definition of stress.
- Scope
- Conceptual debate in stress physiology.
- Caveat
- The claim is that a critique exists and what it argues, not that the critique is correct.
Last reviewed · Review due · allostasis-concept-contested