Health

Study finds new measure for stress in overtrained athletes

With many recreational triathletes and runners ramping up their training in hopes of getting a personal best this summer, a new measure of stress in the body demonstrates that more isn't better when it comes to endurance ...

Neuroscience

Increased nerve activity may raise blood pressure in anxiety

Sympathetic nerve activity to skeletal muscle blood vessels—a function of the nervous system that helps regulate blood pressure—increases during physiological and mental stress in people with chronic anxiety, a new study ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Stress may switch on bone 'mets'

Stress stimulates the formation of blood vessels in bone and may help breast cancer cells to invade this organ.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Veterans with PTSD have an increased 'fight or flight' response

Young veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have an increased 'fight or flight' response during mental stress, according to new findings published this week in the Journal of Physiology.

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