A new study finds people who report higher stress and higher pain adapt to stress better, suggesting tolerance under stress isn’t the absence of discomfort, but what people do with it.

Plant stress responses are complex adaptive processes that enable plants to perceive and respond to a range of abiotic stressors including drought, salinity, heat, and cold. Central to these responses ...

Researchers used the environmental circumstances and fecal samples collected from the six years prior to the severe El Ni o drought in Costa Rica to study the relationship between the endocrinologic ...

As people age, their risk of developing neurodegenerative disorders like dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease increases. A new study from scientists at the University of California, ...

Functional freeze, otherwise known as the the third "F" in the fight, flight, freeze and fawn list, is a stress response defined as a feeling of numbness or paralysis when faced with a threat. This ...

For a long time, trauma responses were thought to be limited to just fight or flight. However, psychotherapist Pete Walker (2014) expanded this framework to include four primary trauma responses, the ...

When we're all dysregulated, we create an unsafe world. Here's how to break the spiral and co-regulate back to health together.

The body's cells respond to stress-toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults-by pausing normal functions to focus on conserving energy, repairing damaged components and boosting defenses. If the ...

People who drink less than the recommended daily fluid intake experience a greater stress hormone response, which is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and depression, ...