Chronic stress doesn't just affect your mood, it can weaken immune defences, increase inflammation, and leave the body ...

When your nervous system is overwhelmed, your body sends subtle signals long before you realise what’s happening. These cues, ...

All organisms must maintain a complex dynamic equilibrium, or homeostasis, which is constantly challenged by internal or external adverse forces termed stressors. Stress occurs when homeostasis is ...

Humans evolved a stress response to cope with imminent threats. But in the modern world, that same system can lead to chronic anxiety and depression. Now, a team of scientists at the University of ...

Stress is not simply a response to acute stressful episodes. It occurs in the brain where a natural rhythmic pattern regulates the stress system of our body, even on a calm day. This rhythmic pattern ...

If exercise feels harder than it should, chronic stress may be working against you. Learn how to regulate your physiology so ...

Research suggests that our mindsets about stress—the beliefs we hold about whether stress is harmful or potentially helpful—dramatically influence how stress affects us physiologically, cognitively, ...

We’ve turned survival responses into a black-and-white idea: pathology or wisdom. This is what we miss when we do that, and ...

Activating the vagus nerve is crucial for regulating the nervous system and easy to do. Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Dave Rabin shares how. ByAnna Haines, Former Contributor. Forbes ...

A new study published in Nature has shown that fear and the immune system are linked in previously unknown ways, with the immune system potentially influencing stress and fear behaviors. The study ...

(CNN) — Many people approach fitness with the same assumption: If they just train harder, stay consistent and push through discomfort, results will follow. But for countless exercisers, effort isn’t ...