News tagged with physiological stress
Caregivers may benefit from adult day care
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Caring for an elderly family member can be stressful and can pose health threats to caregiver givers. Steven Zarit, professor and head, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State, received a $3 million ...
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Family stress has long-term impact on kids
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 21, 2007 |
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A study from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., says family turmoil and violence causes stress-induced physical problems in adolescents.
Witnessing violence affects kids' health
Apr 21, 2009 |
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School-aged children who witness violence in urban communities show symptoms of post-traumatic stress. They also suffer physiological effects with a disruption to their normal cortisol production pattern during the day, which ...
Poverty can physically impair brain, reducing children's ability to learn
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic stress from growing up in poverty can physiologically impact children's brains, impairing their working memory and diminishing their ability to develop language, reading and problem-solving skills, ...
Studying hair of ancient Peruvians answers questions about stress
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent studies show that one in three Canadians suffer from stress and the number is on the rise. But stress isn't a new problem.
Importance of sex-specific testing shown in anxiety study
Oct 15, 2008 |
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An Australian study has flagged an important truth for the medical research community. Like their human counterparts, male and female mice are not only different, their respective genetic responses can often be the reverse ...
Surprising discovery: Multicellular response is 'all for one'
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May 08, 2008 |
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Real or perceived threats can trigger the well-known “fight or flight response” in humans and other animals. Adrenaline flows, and the stressed individual’s heart pumps faster, the muscles work harder, the brain sharpens ...
Work stress linked to heart disease
Jan 20, 2006 |
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A British study of 1,000 civil servants found workplace stress is a major factor in the development of heart disease and diabetes.
Use of cannabinoids could help post-traumatic stress disorder patients
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Use of cannabinoids (marijuana) could assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients. This is exposed in a recent study carried out at the Learning and Memory Lab in the University of Haifa's Department ...
Chronic family turmoil and other problems cause physical changes
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than other young people.
Anti-aging pathway enhances cell stress response
Feb 19, 2009 |
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People everywhere are feeling the stress of a worldwide recession. Our cells, too, are under continual assault from stress.
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