Category: Stress

Study suggests stress during pregnancy may influence baby brain development

From the University of Edinburgh press release: Infants’ brains may be shaped by levels of stress their mother experiences during pregnancy, a study has revealed. Stress levels in mothers —… Read more »

Study suggests burnout can exacerbate work stress

From the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz press release: Work stress and burnout are mutually reinforcing. Surprisingly, the effect of work stress on burnout is much smaller than the effect of… Read more »

Study suggests sleep loss hijacks brain’s activity during learning

From the Elsevier press release: Sleep is crucial for consolidating our memories, and sleep deprivation has long been known to interfere with learning and memory. Now a new study shows that getting… Read more »

Study suggests parents may end up with more stress when kids watch a lot of TV

From the University of Arizona press release: There’s bad news for parents who frequently plop their kids in front of the TV to give themselves a break: It might actually… Read more »

Study suggests Mediterranean diet helps reduce effects of stress in animal model

From the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center press release: Even before the pandemic and the presidential election, Americans reported some of the highest perceived levels of stress in the world,… Read more »

Study suggests staying in touch with emotions can help reduce pandemic-induced stress

From the University of Iowa press release: Everybody, it seems, is stressed out to some degree by the coronavirus pandemic. It may be anguish over the sickness or death of… Read more »

Study suggests new clues about the link between stress and depression

From the Karolinska Institutet press release: Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein in the brain that is important both for the function of the mood-regulating substance… Read more »