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Age and gender play a major role in how people respond to stress, according to a new study on 20-to-64-year-olds. Published in the journal Psychophysiology, the investigation was led by scientists from the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Heart Institute in collaboration with colleagues from the Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University. [continue reading…]
Couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, suggesting that rational communication between partners can ease the impact of marital conflict on the immune system. [continue reading…]
To mark Stress Free Awareness Day today a technologist at the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), has revealed her Top 10 Tips to help technology geeks to deal with stress.Today is Stress Free Awareness Day!
dr mc schraefel (lower case intentional I’m not sure why!), whose main research area is Human Computer Interaction (HCI), feels strongly that technologists and others who spend all day working at computers need to be aware of the negative effects that stress can have on their bodies and their capacity for productive work.
‘People who use technology intensively have a tendency to end up hunched over their computers,’ said schraefel. ‘Often without realising it they adopt a ‘threat response’, clenching all their muscles, which makes it difficult for them to unwind later.
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After exposure to extreme life stresses, what distinguishes the individuals who do and do not develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? A new study, published in the October 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry, suggests that it has something to do with the way that we control the activity of the prefrontal cortex, a brain region thought to orchestrate our thoughts and actions. [continue reading…]
