No one can escape stress, but sometimes it takes a physical and emotional toll that translates to disease and other health effects. The good news is that there are new approaches to treating it.
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Oral contraceptives modify the menstrual cycle. What’s less well known is that they also reach the brain, particularly the regions important for regulating emotions.
Chronic stress from living with systemic racism and gun violence can lead to increased symptoms of PTSD and depression as well as elevated cortisol levels.
While the immune system naturally gets weaker with age, social stressors like trauma and discrimination can hasten immunosenescence.
The science of stress explains why parenting during the pandemic feels so hard. Here are strategies from psychologists for taking back control when you dread yet another challenging day ahead.
Having strong social support and a sense of belonging buffered and even reversed some of the harmful effects of stress on genes.
Lifestyle medicine targets the root of chronic diseases like obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Experts explain why everyone should embrace these free prescriptions for good health.
University students had high rates of mental health issues before the pandemic. The additional stressors of COVID-19 and social isolation will make them even more vulnerable over the winter.
A landmark study shows chronic stress from racism can lead to loss of brain function in African American women.
Itchy skin? More aches and pains? Unusual rash? Headaches? Pimples? If you’ve been experiencing unusual physical symptoms recently, the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic may be the reason.
Physical activity can help people manage the stress of COVID-19, but closures and distancing have made it even harder to exercise. These researchers are developing a free toolkit to help us all cope.
The immune system can respond to stress in ways that harm health. But there’s a stress-buster that can help keep you calm and healthy: exercise.
Daily recovery can not only relieve burnout – it may also prevent it in the first place.
The recent death of Elijah Cummings at age 68 underscores a disturbing statistic: black men die, on average, five years younger than white men. A study shows racism’s effects on gene activity.
Moving up and down the social ladder has long been thought to be stressful, but a new study shows that it has no impact on general health.
Bears in Asia are trapped in bile farms, where they are kept in small cages for decades.
Ciudad Juárez, on the US-Mexico border, has suffered high levels of deadly violence for over a decade. New suicide data reveals the severe mental health impacts of living with chronic violence.
Childhood adversity doesn’t just affect our choices – according to new research, it also weakens the body’s fundamental ability to stay healthy in old age.
Stress has subtle, underlying effects on almost every part of the body, including the heart, gut and immune system.
The controversial Centrelink debt recovery system is bad news for the mental health of the disadvantaged and vulnerable people it targets.
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Associate Professor at McMaster University and Author of Move the Body, Heal the Mind, McMaster University
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Professor of Breast Cancer Research, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences,, Queensland University of Technology
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Researcher in Social Epidemiology, University of York
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Professor, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, retired, University of California, San Francisco
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Cancer Nursing Research Unit, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Intersectionality, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer in Health, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, The University of Queensland
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NHMRC Career Development Fellow, Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate in Immunology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Director of the Mood Research Laboratory, Queen's University, Ontario
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Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
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University of Oxford
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Senior Research Fellow in public health and public policy, University of Adelaide
