From the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne press release via EurekAlert!: It is well known that violent adults often have a history of childhood psychological trauma. Some of these individuals exhibit very real, physical alterations…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release via ScienceDaily: Women suffering from stress-related exhaustion exhibit hypersensitivity to sounds when exposed to stress. In some cases, a sound level corresponding to a normal conversation can be perceived…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison press release via ScienceDaily: People suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and asthma — in which psychological stress plays a major role — may…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: In the face of hard times, which strategy gives us the best shot at survival: saving for the future or spending resources on immediate gains? The answer…
From the BMJ – British Medical Journal press release via ScienceDaily: Witnessing or being on the receiving end of bullying at work heightens the risk of employees being prescribed antidepressants, sleeping pills, and tranquillisers, finds…
From the Mayo Clinic press release: It appears that long, arduous hours in the hospital are causing more than stress and fatigue among doctors-in-training — they’re crashing, or nearly crashing, their cars after work, according…
From the American Heart Association press release via ScienceDaily: People over age 65 with high psychosocial distress face increased risk of stroke , according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. Psychosocial…
From the Columbia University Medical Center press release: Are you stressed? Results of a new meta-analysis of six studies involving nearly 120,000 people indicate that the answer to that question may help predict one’s risk…
From the University of Montreal press release via EurekAlert!: A recent study by a researcher at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress (CSHS) at the Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine and professor at the Université de…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: When we’re faced with things that seem threatening, whether it’s a hairy spider or an angry mob, our goal is usually to get as far away as…