Chronic stress rewires the body’s alarm system. Experts share the small, science-backed ways to help it reset.

October 10 marks World Mental Health Day, a global effort to raise awareness and the perfect time for a self-assessment.

We all experience fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, but for those with trauma history, these responses to stress can become ...

The term “sympathetic nervous system overload” sounds daunting, but the root cause is pedestrian: stress. Stress is, of course, something we all experience all the time, but left unchecked, it can ...

The American Heart Association notes that stress both directly and indirectly increases heart and vascular risk by changing ...

Research suggests that our mindsets about stress—the beliefs we hold about whether stress is harmful or potentially helpful—dramatically influence how stress affects us physiologically, cognitively, ...

Truthfully, however, it doesn’t feel so easy to lower your stress levels when everything feels like too much. That’s why we ...

With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine. But a new study finds that the animals have a surprising similarity ...

Chronic insomnia may be caused by a number of factors, including lots of stress, sleep apnea, or acid reflux.

Does everyone get gassy when they’re nervous? Doctors explain the gut-brain axis and how feelings like worry, excitement and ...