Your body’s stress response can trigger several physiological changes, which can affect immune function. Why you’re stressed and how long you’re stressed can impact how your immune system responds.

This editorial highlights two elegant articles published recently about the stress response in health and disease: Agorastos and Chrousos [1] and de Kloet and Joels [2]. Chrousos, the senior author of ...

The next time you listen to Beethoven’s Ninth or your favorite symphony, try listening to it as an everyday miracle of musical evolution. Picture eons ago, in the Rift Valley perhaps, there was a ...

Higher ambient temperatures significantly amplify physiological stress reactivity, affecting the HPA axis and autonomic nervous system activity. Physiological stress markers increased at warmer ...

Humans have a surprising similarity to zebras. It's not the stripes — unless that happens to be your sartorial style — or even our shared distrust for meat-eating predators. No, what we share with ...

You might have heard people talking about their nervous system being “overloaded” or “dysregulated” when they’re going through periods of heightened stress. Or perhaps you’ve been offered ways to ...