Feeling frazzled lately? It turns out that stress doesn’t just impact your mood, it can fundamentally change how your brain ...

Different stressors require different solutions or coping strategies.” Plus, working out what’s behind your chronic stress ...

Acute stress has been shown to prevent mice from forming specific memories, instead leading to more generalized memories ...

The connection between brain, mental, and cardiovascular health needs considerable more attention, argues Maureen Hood, PhD, RN, Uniformed Services University.

Stress can shape how memories are formed, a study in mice suggests. The findings could point the way to future treatments for ...

Scientific American staff and sleep experts share advice on how to get better sleep in the stressful days leading up to the U ...

This study reveals that gut microbiota, particularly Lactobacillus species, regulate the daily rhythm of stress hormones like ...

This pervasive view has been challenged by recent reports of an acute reduction in cardiac function and the release of cardiac biomarkers, which are highly specific for cardiomyocyte stress or damage, ...

Stress is a double-edged sword when it comes to memory: stressful or otherwise emotional events are usually more memorable, but stress can also make it harder for us to retrieve memories. Now, ...

All participants completed several questionnaires assessing traumatic dissociation during the event, anxiety, acute stress response, and depression. The festival participants, who became victims ...

Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have uncovered that stress changes how our brain encodes and ...