"Lately, I get irritated over small things.""I feel like I haven't recovered from fatigue even after resting.""Things I used ...

Stress, the body's natural response to different types of challenges and daily problems, is an inherently harmless state experienced by most people worldwide. While short-term stress is a common ...

Using a rodent stress model, researchers at the Laboratory of Thalamus Research, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine discovered a sustained increase in neural activity that persisted for ...

Many mood and psychological disorders develop during adolescence; however, the relationship between adolescent stress-related neurogenesis and psychiatric illnesses during this period remains unclear.

Canadian researchers show that stress modifies the morphology of brain cells in mice, directly influencing the rodents’ level of physical activity. Astrocytes in the lateral hypothalamus region of the ...

A study of 361 Chinese university counselors finds that work stress is strongly linked to occupational deviance, but high ...

AG signaling in the oval bed nucleus of the stria terminalis acts as a brake on PTSD-like social avoidance and anxiety, and ...

Stress symptoms in women can manifest as both physical and psychological problems, including anxiety, sleep disturbances, and changes in menstrual patterns. Women may experience stress differently ...

I once worked alongside someone who had spent over thirty years in the prison system, not as an inmate, but as a member of staff. Sharp, controlling and always two steps ahead, she initially seemed ...

Social defeat stress is a widely used paradigm in rodents in which an experimental animal is repeatedly exposed to an aggressive conspecific, resulting in pronounced alterations in social interaction, ...

A man sitting on a massive bear's back while casually holding a drink looks like a wild stunt, but one quiet moment from the bear raises questions about what the animal is actually feeling.