It's well known that stress can trigger hair loss. A new paper explores how this happens and how our response to stress can have long-term consequences for our scalps, research that may eventually ...

Stress can temporarily change our biological age, but the process reverses when the stressor is resolved, according to a new study. Stress can come from emotional distress, disease, drug treatment, ...

A new paper co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign experts who study the science of personalities points to the important role of personality traits to account for individual ...

People who drink less than the recommended daily fluid intake experience a greater stress hormone response, which is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and depression, ...

Stress hormones are chemical messengers that play a role in the body’s physiological and behavioral responses to stress. Examples include catecholamines and cortisol. These hormones help initiate the ...

Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, the body’s built-in survival instinct. But that framework leaves out two other common ways the nervous system reacts to stress. Indeed, ...

"Hangry" and "slangry" aren't types of anger—they're frozen fight-or-flight responses. Understanding this distinction changes how you manage them and get what you actually need.