News tagged with chronic stress

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Wild orangutans stressed by eco-tourists, but not for long, study out of Borneo finds

Wild orangutans that have come into contact with eco-tourists over a period of years show an immediate stress response but no signs of chronic stress, unlike other species in which permanent alterations in ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chronic stress in elephants can affect long-term behavior

Stress is known to lead to short-term escape behavior, and new research on elephants in South Africa shows that it can also cause long-term escape behavior, affecting the extent that elephants use their habitat. The work ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Green spaces reduce stress levels of jobless, study shows

Stress levels of unemployed people are linked more to their surroundings than their age, gender, disposable income, and degree of deprivation, a study shows.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ship noise boosts stress in whales, 9/11 reveals: study

The steady drone of motors along busy commercial shipping lanes not only alters whale behaviour but can affect the giant sea mammals physically by causing chronic stress, a study published Wednesday has reported ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Antibody production gets confused during long-term spaceflight

The trip to Mars just got a little more difficult now that French researchers have discovered that antibodies used to fight off disease might become seriously compromised during long-term space flight. In a new report published ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Post-disaster health woes plague New Orleans: study

The effects of a major natural disaster can linger and cause heart attacks and other health woes for years, according to a study released Sunday of New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hippocampal volume and resilience in posttramatic stress disorder

The hippocampus, a brain region implicated in memory and interpreting environmental contexts, has been the focus of a controversy in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Simple spit and blood tests might detect burnout before it happens

(PhysOrg.com) -- Your blood and the level of a hormone in your spit could reveal if you're on the point of burnout, according to research undertaken by Dr. Sonia Lupien and Robert-Paul Juster of the Centre ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Emotional response may predict how the body responds to stress

Your emotional response to challenging situations could predict how your body responds to stress, according to research published this month in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Regrowing hair: Researchers may have accidentally discovered a solution

It has been long known that stress plays a part not just in the graying of hair but in hair loss as well. Over the years, numerous hair-restoration remedies have emerged, ranging from hucksters' "miracle solvents" ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (44) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Chronic stress seems linked to achievement gap

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children in low-income families lag behind their higher-income counterparts on virtually all measures of achievement, and this gap tends to increase over time. There are many reasons why, but a Cornell environmental ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Molecular mechanism links stress with predisposition for depression

A new study provides insight into how stress impacts the brain and may help to explain why some individuals are predisposed to depression when they experience chronic stress. The research, published by Cell Press in the January ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Workers most invested in their jobs have highest stress levels, study shows

A workplace's key employees may be at the greatest risk of experiencing high levels of work stress, according to a new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drug prevents post-traumatic stress syndrome

when a severely stressful event triggers exaggerated and chronic fear – affects nearly 8 million people in the United States and is hard to treat. In a preclinical study, Northwestern Medicine scientists have for the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Exhausted? Feeling really tired can threaten your health

For many of us, exhaustion is a fact of life. But for the rich and famous, it seems acute weariness can be so debilitating that it requires hospitalization and, in the case of Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4