News tagged with chronic stress
Why antidepressants don't work for so many
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 23, 2009 |
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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 ...
Stress rewires the brain to make rats creatures of habit
Jul 30, 2009 |
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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.
Short stressful events may improve working memory
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 23, 2009 |
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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 ...
Reaction to stress traced to genetic differences
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 05, 2009 |
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Can people's differing reactions to situations of stress be attributed at least in part to genetic differences and do those differences affect men and women in different ways - with the edge seemingly favoring the women? ...
New and unexpected mechanism identified how the brain responds to stress
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 02, 2009 |
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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 ...
Yerkes researchers create animal model of chronic stress
Sep 03, 2008 |
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In an effort to better understand how chronic stress affects the human body, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, have created ...
