Stress and disease: is being female a predisposing factor?

Jill B. Becker,1 Lisa M. Monteggia,2 Tara S. Perrot-Sinal,3 Russell D. Romeo,4 Jane R. Taylor,5 Rachel Yehuda,6 and Tracy L. Bale7 1Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, 2Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, 3Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2, 4Department of Psychology, Barnard College, New York, New York 10027, 5Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, 6Department of Psychiatry, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York 10468, and 7Department of Animal Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104