Nearly 30 percent of gym-goers concerned about their own overuse of these products

Workplace stress can be overwhelming and harmful at times, but eliminating it may not be the answer to finding happiness with your employer, two psychology experts profess in their just-released book, “Thriving Under Stress.”

What organizations can learn from firefighters battling wildfires

Relax. Breathe. It’s all small stuff. When faced with life’s daily challenges, adults who don’t maintain a positive outlook have shown elevated physiological markers for inflaming cardiovascular and autoimmune disease, according to new research by Cornell University and Penn State psychologists.

Young people’s brains cope with stress in a completely different way to adults, in complete contrast to the conventional wisdom that the brains of humans of all ages act similarly. This is the conclusion of a study conducted on rats at the University of Haifa. The study found that young rats not only extinguished fear much more rapidly, but that while in adult rats the plasticity of the prefrontal cortex declined, among young rats a different mechanism actually enhances plasticity.

Work presented at the 169th Acoustical Society of America Meeting in Pittsburgh may have benefits from the office cube to the in-patient ward.

Ohio State study shows dramatic stress reduction among ICU nurses

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A new study adds more to the growing body of evidence that certain compounds found naturally in foods have specific effects that help prevent chronic diseases

Let's learn a bit about cortisol in this ACS Get To Know A Molecule video

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on how chronic stress and obesity may contribute to type 2 diabetes. The findings point the finger at an unexpected biological perpetrator – the breakdown of fat.

Natural human hormone protects against obesity and diabetes in mice