Does hair cortisol concentration reflect measurable regulatory biology of the HPA axis in healthy humans?

February 2026 in “ Psychoneuroendocrinology ”

James L. Abelson, Lin Xie, Brisa N. Sánchez, Stefanie E. Mayer, Tobias Stalder, Gahl Liberzon, Hedieh Briggs, Nirmala Rajaram, Andrew S. Cotton

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