Stress resilience isn't a flatline. It's a flex, according to new research from Florida International University. Marcelo Bigliassi, assistant professor of psychophysiology, and Ph.D. student Dayanne ...

Plant stress responses are complex adaptive processes that enable plants to perceive and respond to a range of abiotic stressors including drought, salinity, heat, and cold. Central to these responses ...

As people age, their risk of developing neurodegenerative disorders like dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease increases. A new study from scientists at the University of California, ...

Researchers used the environmental circumstances and fecal samples collected from the six years prior to the severe El Ni o drought in Costa Rica to study the relationship between the endocrinologic ...

Functional freeze, otherwise known as the the third "F" in the fight, flight, freeze and fawn list, is a stress response defined as a feeling of numbness or paralysis when faced with a threat. This ...

For a long time, trauma responses were thought to be limited to just fight or flight. However, psychotherapist Pete Walker (2014) expanded this framework to include four primary trauma responses, the ...

From your afternoon coffee to doomscrolling in bed, experts reveal common habits could be keeping your cortisol chronically elevated—and what to do instead.

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, ...