News tagged with stress level

In the sex game, stressed men choose dissimilar mates

If you thought the mating business was already a jungle, where the pitfalls are looks, social rank, purchasing power, verbal skills and even subconscious smells, get ready to be dismayed for it is even more ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 10

Superelastic iron alloy could be used for heart and brain surgery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Japan have designed an elastic iron-based shape metal alloy for use in applications as diverse as heart and brain surgery and buildings in earthquake-prone areas.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

'Rationalizer' bracelet tells traders when they're stressed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Philips Electronics and the Dutch bank ABN AMRO have joined forces to develop a "Rationalizer" bracelet system that detects stress levels and displays a warning to help day-traders avoid making ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 4 weblog

Hair provides proof of the link between chronic stress and heart attack

Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have provided the first direct evidence using a biological marker, to show chronic stress plays an important role in heart attacks. Stressors such as job, marital and financial ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The lifetime effects of stress

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Stafford Lightman and his team in the Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology are interested in how stress impacts upon human health throughout the lifespan - just how does it ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers discover a compound that controls Listeria

In a year when cantaloupe tainted with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes killed 30 people, the discovery of a compound that controls this deadly bacteria -- and possibly others -- is great news.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Lung doctors expect respiratory diseases will worsen with global climate change

Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures, worsening ozone levels in urban ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Bad jobs: Why they make some women bad moms

(PhysOrg.com) -- The kind of job a woman has may be just as important as whether she works or not when it comes to the well-being of her child.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The battle for CRTC2: How obesity increases the risk for diabetes

Obesity is probably the most important factor in the development of insulin resistance, but science's understanding of the chain of events is still spotty. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Teen sex not always bad for school performance

(AP) -- There's good news for parents who worry that their teenagers' sex lives are affecting their school performance: A provocative new study has found that teens in committed relationships do no better or worse in school ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 5

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

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

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Stop and smell the flowers -- the scent really can soothe stress

Feeling stressed? Then try savoring the scent of lemon, mango, lavender, or other fragrant plants. Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific evidence that inhaling certain fragrances alter gene ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Yoga reduces cytokine levels known to promote inflammation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Regularly practicing yoga exercises may lower a number of compounds in the blood and reduce the level of inflammation that normally rises because of both normal aging and stress, a new study has shown.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Soybean genetic treasure trove found in Swedish village

The first screening by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists of the American ancestors of soybeans for tolerance to ozone and other stresses had an eye-opening result: The world superstars of stress ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0