Our minds have a tendency to latch onto negative experiences more strongly than positive ones. While occasional negative ...

Recent medical research indicates that the heightened risk of heart disease observed in patients with depression or anxiety ...

Bottom line: This study discovered a circuit in the brain that connects stress with increased glucose and therefore may link stress to type 2 diabetes. In stressful situations, this circuit from the ...

The size of the amygdala, its degree of connectivity to other parts of the brain—stress may boost its connections—and its threshold of activation may naturally vary among people, predisposing to ...

Women are more than twice as likely as men to develop stress-related conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ...

And the longer you live in this heightened state, the harder it gets for you to return to being able to take things in stride ...

Stress is the brain’s natural response to fear, but it often disrupts memory in the process, potentially impacting the possibility of memory loss. When preparing for a big presentation or taking a ...

Researchers believe that anybody can experience a bout of debilitating anxiety. But some people seem to be dispositionally inclined to anxiety: Their defense systems—possibly tuned by genes or ...