“We found that inconsistent treatment is much more stressful than being treated poorly all the time.”

A new Cornell study explored how a noisy, disruptive and disorganized environment influences how much women eat

“This is the first demonstration that there is a link between stress and microbiome diversity in the wild,” senior author of study says.

The research team wanted to know how a history of stress could alter the brain’s response to further stress

Experiments showed that, like all other cells, mesenchymal stem cells experience stress due to tissue injury and inflammation

Work at Australian university brings new insights to the cause, treatment, and prevention of the disease

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.

Ohio State study shows dramatic stress reduction among ICU nurses

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