From the Stanford University press release by Beth Mole: Worrywarts, fidgety folk and the naturally nervy may have a real cause for concern: accelerated cancer. In a new study led by researchers at the Stanford…
From the University of Pennsylvania Medicine press release: A cellular protein called HDAC6, newly characterized as a gatekeeper of steroid biology in the brain, may provide a novel target for treating and preventing stress-linked disorders,…
From the Duke University press release via EurekAlert!: Children who have experienced violence might really be older than their years. The DNA of 10-year-olds who experienced violence in their young lives has been found to…
From the University of Toronto press release via EurekAlert!: Adults who were physically abused during childhood are more likely than their non-abused peers to have suicidal thoughts, according to a new study from the University…
From the Ohio State University press release via EurekAlert!: Caring for a wife with breast cancer can have a measurable negative effect on men’s health, even years after the cancer diagnosis and completion of treatment,…
From the University of Missouri press release: Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer can experience cognitive declines, such as decreased verbal fluency or loss of memory and attention. Often experienced by patients undergoing chemotherapy, the…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via Newswise: Based on their clinical experience and observations, a team of Johns Hopkins physicians and psychologists say that more than one-third of the patients admitted to The…
From the University of Chicago Medicine press release: The ranking of a monkey within her social environment and the stress accompanying that status dramatically alters the expression of nearly 1,000 genes, a new scientific study…
From the UC Berkeley press release: Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley,…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Have you watched the movie Friday the 13th? Scary, isn’t it? Well, perhaps not quite as scary as the infamous Rebecca Black song, “Friday” – but close…