The release on Thursday of the American Psychological Association’s annual Stress in America report represents nearly a decade of the organization tracking the extent and impact of stress in Americans ...

Whether avoiding predators in the bush or in the office, humans have always had to cope with stress. But use of the word to mean that familiar clammy-handed, racing-heart, jumpy-tense feeling was ...

The modern idea of stress began on a rooftop in Canada, with a handful of rats freezing in the winter wind. This was 1936 and by that point the owner of the rats, an endocrinologist named Hans Selye, ...

General adaptation syndrome (GAS), also known as Selye's syndrome, describes the changes your body goes through when you experience stress. It involves three stages of stress-induced changes: your ...

General adaptation syndrome (GAS) is the three-stage process that describes the physiological changes your body goes through when under stress. Stress is a common occurrence. While you can’t remove ...

The experiment seemed to be a dismal failure. The young researcher at Montreal’s McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone.

2 of 8 — This ad for Spud cigarettes asks if smokers turn to cigarettes to calm down. If so, Spuds are the solution. Spud,1929. 3 of 8 — Camel used the confessions of working smokers to show that ...

General adaptation syndrome (GAS) is a three-stage response that the body has to stress. Possible causes include psychological stress and life events. Stress is sometimes thought of as a mental ...