Journal of Intellectual & Developmental is an international, multidisciplinary journal in the field of intellectual and developmental disability. GJIDD journal is an open access peer reviewed scientific journal focused towards publishing a complete and reliable source of information origin, prevention and treatment for intellectual disabilities. GJIDD is dedicated to meet the information needs of those who seek effective ways to help people with intellectual disabilities. The journal reports new approaches, program developments, administrative tools, service utilization studies, program evaluation, community surveys, training and case studies, public policy issues, and current research in intellectual disabilities. GJIDD is an indispensable reference and resource platform for doctoral and master's-level universities, teaching hospitals, research organizations, sciences and human services libraries, local, state and federal agencies interested in understanding origin, prevention and treatment for intellectual disabilities.

Patients with cancer face many physical and emotional stressors, and research has shown that distress can impact disease progression and survival. In this article it’s analyzed the model of stress and coping to examine the cancer survivors’ self-reported efforts to manage stress and their consequences for health. The use of some coping strategies might be helpful to extend survival time and the understanding of these coping strategies it’s very important, so negative and positive coping styles are described. During cancer, coping strategies adopted by patients and their partner have an effect on their own emotional state and quality of life, so these findings highlight the importance of further investigating also this topic.

Some hints exist that there might be a relationship between PTSD and Autism in the way that in both entities steroid hormone homeostasis plays a central role, with mainly an involvement of androgens in Autism and with glucocorticoids in PTSD. From an (neuro) anatomical point of view for both clinical entities Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal gland structures are crucial, whereby for Autism additionally sex organs especially testes with its ingoing steroid homeostasis has relevance.

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