Within a group of children, there is always some children who tend to be shying or distressing away in a corner of the room, while there is the actives ones that run about the classroom. Scientists believe that the main cause is their sensitive and resilience to stress which is determined by genes. However, with the environmental help in culturing ...
Date Posted: March 28, 2015
Categories: Stress Management
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The Mediterranean diet is known to prevent against heart disease and is hailed as the secret to a long, healthy life. Now, researchers have found the can help people with depression, too.
A study found people who followed the diet were happier, ...
Mar 17
Categories: Anxiety, Eating Disorders, Stress Management
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Instead of an apple, could a hug-a-day keep the doctor away? According to new research from Carnegie Mellon University, that may not be that far-fetched of an idea.
Dec 18
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Stress Management
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Does your pace of life in the city impact your health?
Dec 15
Categories: Anxiety, Depression, Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Stress ...
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Teens stay up late at night and sleep late into the morning, a result of a natural shift in their circadian rhythms. That biological schedule puts them at odds with the adult world, as well as early start times for high school. But does the mismatch ...
Dec 12
Categories: Sleep Disorders, Stress Management
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At the Center for Brain Research at the MedUni Vienna an important factor for stress has been identified in collaboration with the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Sweden). This is the protein secretagogin that plays an important role in the ...
Nov 28
Categories: Stress Management
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Activated through permanent stress, immune cells will have a damaging effect on and cause changes to the brain. This may result in mental disorders. The effects of permanent stress on the immune system are studied by the research group headed by ...
Nov 22
Categories: Stress Management
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We take it for granted, but most people have to wake up for work (or school or other morning obligations) long before they want to. Sleeping in is treated as a cherished luxury - it's somehow become normal that people wake up still exhausted, and ...
Nov 8
Categories: Sleep Disorders, Stress Management
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Shedding light on the frequently proposed but rarely taken-to-heart suggestion of getting air and seeing friends, a large-scale study linked group nature walks to improved mental health and reduced stress.
Sep 27
Categories: Stress Management
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Some grieving elderly people literally die of a broken heart. This is because grief affects people over the age of 65 more severely, weakening their immune systems and making infection more likely.
Sep 24
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Stress Management
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Why is it that when people are too stressed they are often grouchy, grumpy, nasty, distracted or forgetful? Researchers from the Brain Mind Institute (BMI) at EPFL have just highlighted a fundamental synaptic mechanism that explains the relationship ...
Sep 19
Categories: Stress Management
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Nearly a year after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, hospital staff, first responders and medical volunteers who cared for the injured and dying were still struggling to put the experience behind them.
Aug 12
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Anxiety, Caregiver Issues / ...
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What if taking vacation not only made you healthier and happier, as a number of studies have shown, but everyone around you? And what if everybody took vacation at the same time? Would life be better, not just for you, but for the entire society?
Aug 9
Categories: Happiness, Stress Management
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Anyone who's had a pimple form right before an important event may wonder if stress caused the break out. While commonly linked anecdotally, proving the relationship between stress and inflammatory skin conditions, such as acne, psoriasis and ...
Aug 8
Categories: Caregiver Issues / Stress, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / ...
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Scientists studying depression in teens have discovered that subtle changes in a gene can predict how the brain reacts to stress, which can cause such health issues as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and obesity.
Aug 6
Categories: Caregiver Issues / Stress, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ...
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