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

Results of research in mice may provide potential avenues for therapeutic interventions in stress-related disorders.

In addition to managing the body's response to stress, cortisol regulates blood sugar and blood pressure ... He added, ...

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

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

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, ...

In a new study, researchers identify the biological processes behind stress-induced aversive memory generalization and highlight an intervention which could help restore appropriate memory specificity ...

It turns out that stress doesn't just impact your mood, it can fundamentally change how your brain processes and stores your ...

Researchers have discovered how stress disrupts memory specificity, leading to generalized aversive memories—a hallmark of PTSD.

Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children SickKids revealed that stress alters how our brain encodes and retrieves aversive memories and they developed a ...

This important work advances our understanding of DNA methylation and its consequences for susceptibility to DNA damage. This work presents evidence that DNA methylation can accentuate the genomic ...

Acute stress causes mice to form generalized memories, impairing their ability to distinguish threats. Researchers linked ...