Stressful life events (SLEs) in childhood, including emotional abuse, unmet basic needs, experiences of racism, household mental illness, household substance abuse, parental incarceration, and exposure to neighborhood violence, ...
Aug 9, 2023
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There's an old saying that adversity makes you stronger. Real life shows that's not always true, but the adage highlights an evolving debate among scientists about resilience.
Oct 31, 2022
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Stressful life circumstances can affect how married couples interact, but can they affect how partners see each other? A person experiencing stress is more likely to notice their spouse's negative behavior than positive, ...
Sep 26, 2022
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New research in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica suggests that stress may affect a woman's fecundability, or her probability of achieving a pregnancy within a menstrual cycle.
Sep 21, 2022
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A recent study led by researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University is shedding new light on how genetic and environmental factors influence the risk of suicidal thoughts in adolescents.
Sep 12, 2022
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For three decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a "chemical imbalance" in the brain—namely an imbalance of a brain chemical called serotonin. However, our latest research ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Depression is influenced more by environmental factors than genetic ones, said a study conducted in Sri Lanka—a country devastated by a long-running civil war (1983–2009) and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, resulting in ...
Apr 13, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Overall, 6.8 percent of children age 5 to 17 years were victims of or witnessed violence in their neighborhood in 2019, according to a September data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Sep 16, 2021
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Adults with normal blood pressure and high levels of stress hormones were more likely to develop high blood pressure and experience cardiovascular events compared to those who had lower stress hormone levels, according to ...
Sep 13, 2021
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We often talk about the coronavirus pandemic in terms of health or economic impacts: the numbers of cases and deaths, the persistence of long-haul COVID, lost jobs and toilet paper shortages.
Jul 26, 2021
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