News tagged with chronic stress

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Researchers describe secrets of 'magic' antidepressant

Yale researchers have discovered how a novel anti-depressant can take effect in hours, rather than the weeks or months usually required for most drugs currently on the market. The findings, described in the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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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

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Research identifies gene that changes the brain's response to stress

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brains change. They change throughout life, responding to developmental but also environmental cues, like stress. Scientists know of several important proteins that play a role in what brains ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

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

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

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Why antidepressants don't work for so many

More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. Why? Because the cause of depression has been oversimplified and drugs designed to treat it aim at the wrong target, according to new research ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 4

Early life stress may predict cardiovascular disease

Early life stress could be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in adulthood, researchers report.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stress rewires the brain to make rats creatures of habit

Chronic stress rewires the brains of rats to make them creatures of habit who make rote decisions instead of changing their behavior to gain rewards, a study published Thursday has found.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

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

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

Short stressful events may improve working memory

Experiencing chronic stress day after day can produce wear and tear on the body physically and mentally, and can have a detrimental effect on learning and emotion. However, acute stress -- a short stressful incident -- may ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New and unexpected mechanism identified how the brain responds to stress

Chronic stress takes a physical and emotional toll on our bodies and scientists are working on piecing together a medical puzzle to understand how we respond to stress at the cellular level in the brain. Being able to quickly ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Childhood health disparities can have life-long health effects

Research indicates that physical and mental stress in childhood may have life-long adverse health effects and policy initiatives are needed to emphasize the importance of starting health promotion and disease prevention early ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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