When you’re stressed, do you ever feel like you just don’t want to be around other people? According to a Dartmouth study, greater levels of stress on a given day were found to be predictive of decreases in social interaction the following day. The results are published in the journal…
Burnout cases 'on the rise' again as more people return to the office
The last few months have seen a return to some semblance of normality after the long disruption and upheaval of the pandemic. While returning to our regular routines is largely a good thing, there is one downside to the mass return to office culture and commuting – burnout is on…
Chronic stress may impact treatment completion and survival outcomes in patients with breast cancer
Elevated allostatic load was associated with a lower likelihood of completing chemotherapy and a lower overall survival rate in patients with lymph node-positive or high-risk lymph node-negative HER2-negative breast cancer, according to results presented at the 14th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and…
Feel exhausted even after the weekend? You’re not alone
Struggling with feelings of exhaustion and overwhelm at work, even after the weekend? You could be one of the thousands of people dealing with burnout right now. Here’s how to cope, according to an expert. It’s long been known that the pandemic has contributed to a rise in the number…
Common Causes Of Stress
Stress — everyone has it. Technically, stress is the way in which your brain and body respond to a demand (via the National Institute of Mental Health). Whatever the challenge may be, whether professional or personal, the way in which you react to it and how you deal with it…
New study shows that stress during childhood and adolescence can modify the brain
A study by the University of Valencia (UV) and the INCLIVA Health Research Institute, of the Clinical Hospital of Valencia, shows that stress during the early stages of life can modify the brain, particularly in women. The study, led by Juan Nácher, Professor of Cell Biology and a member of…
Study identifies strengths and specific challenges among young autistic drivers
A collaborative study from the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) and the Center for Autism Research (CAR) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) identified clear strengths and a series of specific challenges autistic adolescents experience while learning to drive. The findings were recently published by the American Journal…
Adolescent Substance Use and the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the past year, adolescents, families, educators, and health care providers have had to press forward through myriad challenges and stressors with flexibility and adaptability. With appropriate concern, we ask ourselves how children and youth are coping emotionally with the unprecedented changes of the past year. Adolescent substance use represents…
Family child care home providers with high diet self-efficacy are better equipped to manage stress
Building family child care home providers’ (FCCH) self-efficacy—an individual’s belief in their ability to manage their situation—for healthy eating is an important component of health promotion and can buffer the impact of stress on their diet quality, according to a new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior….
Genetic mechanism enables TB-causing bacterium to remember and rapidly respond to stress
Tuberculosis bacteria have evolved to remember stressful encounters and react quickly to future stress, according to a study by computational bioengineers at Rice University and infectious disease experts at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS). Published online in the open-access journal mSystems, the research identifies a genetic mechanism that allows…
Melatonin synthesized in the lungs acts as a barrier against SARS-CoV-2
Melatonin synthesized in the lungs acts as a barrier against SARS-CoV-2, preventing expression of genes that encode proteins in cells such as resident macrophages in the nose and pulmonary alveoli, and epithelial cells lining the alveoli, all of which are entry points for the virus. The hormone, therefore, prevents infection…