General adaptation syndrome (GAS), also known as Selye's syndrome, describes the changes your body goes through when you experience stress. It involves three stages of stress-induced changes: your ...

General adaptation syndrome (GAS) is the three-stage process that describes the physiological changes your body goes through when under stress. Stress is a common occurrence. While you can’t remove ...

We trust Selye's intuition and experiments and use the notion of adaptation energy as a cornerstone in a system of models. We provide a 'thermodynamic-like' theory of organism resilience that, just ...