Men’s Stress Increases If Wife Earns More Than 40% of Household Income
Study of US data shows persistent social norms about male breadwinning can harm men’s mental health. Husbands are least stressed when their wives earn up…
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3 Issues Are Causing Americans Significant Stress – Here’s the Breakdown
Health care, mass shootings, 2020 election causing Americans significant stress. Stress about health care on par with stress related to mass shootings. A year before…
Groundbreaking Research Into the Value of “Thoughts and Prayers”
Groundbreaking research by a University of Wyoming economist has shed new light on the controversial topic of the value of “thoughts and prayers” in response…
Hot Springs Help Japan’s Snow Monkeys Cope With The Cold
Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, have been enjoying regular baths in the hot spring at Jigokudani in Japan for decades – and have…
Inhibition of FKBP51 Protein Reduces Obesity and Diabetes
For the first time, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich could prove that a stress protein found in muscle has a…
Stress Slows Women’s Recovery from Acute Myocardial Infarction
A new study from Yale University shows that stress plays a role in the sex-based differences in recovery after acute myocardial infarction. Young and middle-aged…
Neurobiologists Block the Effects of Stress
By deleting the REDD1 gene in mice, researchers from Yale University were able to block the synaptic and behavioral deficits caused by stress. Ketamine, an…
Homer-1 Could Be a Key to the Treatment of Stress-Induced Cognitive Deficits
In a soon to be published study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute show in mice that social stress reduces the volume of Homer-1 in…
MDMA Provides Prolonged Relief from Severe Stress
A new study indicates that the benefits of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) persist years after the first treatment of the…