Stress Hormone Receptors Localized in Sweet Taste Cells
Researchers discover receptors for stress activated hormones are localized in oral taste cells responsible for detecting sweet, umami and bitter tastes. ... Read More...
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Dealing with Stress: To Cope or to Quit?
Researchers identify neurons in mice which determine resilience to depression.... Read More...
Your Stress Is My Stress
Simply observing stressful situations can trigger a physical stress response, a new research paper suggests.... Read More...
Jump Starting Natural Resilience Reverses Stress Susceptibility
Researchers trace a vulnerability in depression like behaviors in mice to out of balance activity in neurons.... Read More...
New Finding Suggests a Way to Block Stress Damage
The gene REDD1 enables stress to damage neurons and cause depressive behavior, a new study reports.... Read More...
Chronic Stress in Early Life Causes Anxiety and Aggression in Adulthood, Researchers Find
Researchers report results of experiments designed to assess the impacts of social stress upon adolescent mice, both at the time they are experienced and during adulthood.... Read More...
Study in Mice Raises Question: Could PTSD Involve Immune Cell Response to Stress?
A new study reports that after chronic stress, primed immune cells cause an excessive reaction to a later event.... Read More...
New Evidence That Chronic Stress Predisposes Brain to Mental Illness
Researchers show chronic stress generates long term changes in the brain. The finding could explain why people suffering from chronic stress are prone to developing additional mental health problems.... Read More...
Worry on the Brain
Researchers discover neural circuitry which promotes stress induced anxiety.... Read More...
Discovery of “Teen Gene” Could Hold Promise for Combating Severe Mental Illnesses
Researchers isolate a gene responsible for dopamine connectivity in the medial prefrontal cortex during adolescence.... Read More...
Effects of Chronic Stress Can be Traced to Your Genes
Chronic stress alters gene activity in immune cells before they reach the bloodstream. The change leads to an overabundance of inflammation, which is linked to many negative health effects, a new study reports.... Read More...
Research Finds Pain in Infancy Alters Response to Stress and Anxiety Later in Life
Infants who do not receive analgesics while undergoing treatment and tests in neonatal intensive care could have permanently altered future responses to anxiety, pain and stress in adulthood, a new study reports. ... Read More...