Psychology & Psychiatry

Study provides insights into depression via ophthalmology

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry measured the pupillary reaction of participants while they were solving a task. In healthy participants, the pupils dilated during the task in anticipation of a reward, ...

Cardiology

Studies examine heat and cold as cardiovascular health hazards

Both hot and cold environments trigger a stress response in the human body and can lead to cardiovascular problems. Physiologist Justin Lawley from the Department of Sport Science at the University of Innsbruck and colleagues ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Protecting the mental state of health care workers

Nurses help millions of people address their physical and mental health. But who makes sure the nurses' health is taken care of? Dr. Farzan Sasangohar, associate professor in the Wm Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial ...

Medical research

The role of metabolic signaling in preventing atrial fibrillation

Research from the Yale School of Medicine indicates that a protein kinase that is a master regulator of cell metabolism is critical to preventing atrial fibrillation. The research appeared April 22 in the journal JCI Insight.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Cannabis use blunts stress reactivity in female rats

Female rats that inhaled vaporized cannabis daily for a month developed a blunted physiological response to stress, according to a new study by Washington State University researchers.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Researchers find where stress lives

Yale researchers have found a neural home of the feeling of stress people experience, an insight that may help people deal with the debilitating sense of fear and anxiety that stress can evoke, Yale researchers report May ...

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