Medically reviewed by Geralyn Dexter, PhD, LMHC Chronic stress triggers elevated levels of the hormone cortisol, which can ...

You've been dealing with stress your whole life. So when you forget where you put your keys or blank on a neighbor's name, you might brush it off as "just getting older." But can all that stress and ...

New research suggests that regularly using alcohol to manage stress during early adulthood may have lasting effects on brain ...

Can stress make you age before your time? Doctors reveal why grey hair in your 20s and brain fog in your 30s aren't always a ...

Stress worsens sleep quality and can impair memory. Shinjae Chung, from the University of Pennsylvania, led a study to explore a neural pathway in male mice that stress may influence to cause sleep ...

Stress worsens sleep quality and can impair memory. Shinjae Chung, from the University of Pennsylvania, led a study to explore a neural pathway in male mice that stress may influence, to cause sleep ...

A stressor is anything that threatens the body’s homeostasis, that disturbs its balance point. Our bodies are best designed to deal with acute stress and poorly designed to tackle chronic stress. The ...

Stress is detrimental to basic thinking processes. In adults suffering from PTSD for example—a disorder characterized by high and dysfunctional levels of stress—a region of the brain that is essential ...

Taking a placebo, while knowing it’s a placebo, may still ease stress and sharpen memory in older adults, offering a surprising and ethical path to support healthy aging. Study: Placebo mechanisms in ...