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Parents of Children With Autism More Likely to Get Common Ailments
April 2, 2012 — Parents of children with autism are more likely to get common ailments such as colds, coughs and headaches as a direct result of the increased stresses linked to their caring duties, according to new ... > full story -
Greater Traumatic Stress Linked With Elevated Inflammation in Heart Patients
March 29, 2012 — Greater lifetime exposure to the stress of traumatic events was linked to higher levels of inflammation in a study of almost 1,000 patients with cardiovascular ... > full story -
Anxiety Boosts Sense of Smell
March 22, 2012 — Anxious people have a heightened sense of smell when it comes to sniffing out a threat, according to a new ... > full story -
Differences in Brain Function for Children With Math Anxiety
March 21, 2012 — Scientists have shown for the first time how brain function differs in people who have math anxiety from those who don't. A series of scans conducted while second- and third-grade students did ... > full story -
Shyness Study Examines How Human Brain Adapts to Stimuli
March 14, 2012 — Shyness may be the result of deficits in two areas of the brain, new research ... > full story -
Yoga Helps Ease Stress Related Medical and Psychological Conditions, Study Suggests
March 6, 2012 — An new article reviews evidence that yoga may be effective in treating patients with stress-related psychological and medical conditions such as depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and cardiac ... > full story -
Stress Making Your Blood Pressure Rise? Blame Your Immune System
March 5, 2012 — If stress is giving you high blood pressure, blame the immune system. T cells, helpful for fighting infections, are also necessary for mice to show an increase in blood pressure after a period of ... > full story -
Childhood Adversity Causes Changes in Genetics
February 27, 2012 — A new article finds epigenetic effect of psychological difficulty in childhood on an important regulator of stress response. The research may help explain a biological link between adversity in youth ... > full story -
A Unique on-Off Switch for Hormone Production
February 23, 2012 — Scientists have revealed a new kind of on-off switch in the brain for regulating the production of a main biochemical signal from the brain that stimulates cortisol release in the ... > full story -
If You're Afraid of Spiders, They Seem Bigger: Phobia's Effect on Perception of Feared Object Allows Fear to Persist
February 22, 2012 — The more afraid a person is of a spider, the bigger that individual perceives the spider to be, new research suggests. In the context of a fear of spiders, this warped perception doesn't necessarily ... > full story
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