News tagged with stress hormones

Stress hormone cortisol to help overcome phobias

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers are showing the potential benefit of using the stress hormone Cortisol in addition to exposure therapy to hel ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Behavioral problems linked to cortisol levels

Cortisol, the so-called stress hormone, seems to behave in contradictory ways in children. Some youngsters with behavioral problems have abnormally high levels of cortisol, while others with identical problems ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Light therapy promising for treating major depression

(PhysOrg.com) -- A small clinical trial in The Netherlands suggests bright light therapy may be a useful treatment for the symptoms of major depression in older adults.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Exercise's brain benefits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Athletes have long known about the natural "high" exercise can induce. Now, for the first time, medical researchers have demonstrated that exercise can reverse the effects in the brain of psychological trauma ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Early ripening of grapes pinned to warming, soil moisture

Researchers in Australia say they have pinpointed key factors in the early ripening of grapes, providing potential answers for wine growers threatened by global warming.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 26, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

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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Early life stress has effects at the molecular level

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of mice suggests that stress and trauma in early life can have an impact on the genes and result in behavioral problems later in life.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Stress in early life reduces life expectancy - and that of partners

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from the University of Glasgow, published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, suggests that our expectancy is likely to be strongly affected by how much stress ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Autism linked with stress hormone levels

Some of the symptoms of the autistic condition Asperger Syndrome, such as a need for routine and resistance to change, could be linked to levels of the stress hormone cortisol, suggests new research led by the University ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Miniature 'wearable' PET scanner ready for use (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and collaborators have demonstrated the efficacy of a "wearable," portable PET ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Humans not the only ones that pass down abusive behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in The Auk, researchers claim they have found evidence that humans are not the only species where child abuse is a socially transmitted behavior.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

A tool to measure stress hormone in birds -- feathers

When faced with environmental threats like bad weather, predators or oil spills, wild birds secrete a hormone called corticosterone. Traditionally, researchers have analyzed blood samples to detect corticosterone levels in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Older age memory loss tied to stress hormone receptor in brain

Scientists have shed new light on how older people may lose their memory with a development that could aid research into treatments for age-related memory disorders.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Stress may lead to better bird parenting

Birds with high levels of stress hormones have the highest mating success and offer better parental care to their brood, according to new biology research at Queen's University.

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Infants can remember emotional events: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by a University of Toronto Scarborough psychologist shows that human infants can remember unusual emotional events.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Stress hormone

Stress hormones such as cortisol, GH and norepinephrine are released at periods of high stress. The hormone regulating system is known as the endocrine system. Cortisol is believed to affect the metabolic system and norepinephrine is believed to play a role in ADHD as well as depression and hypertension.

Stress hormones rise in the body during any neuroendocrine reaction such as surgery and they remain high to as long as 72 hours after which all these hormones return back to their normal level, the last being cortisol.

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