Many immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. have post-traumatic stress disorder and those with severe cases “can be in denial about what happened to them” in their home countries, “avoid overwhelming memories, or refuse treatment because of lingering fears of past dealings with powerful institutions,” according to advocates, the Boston Globe reports. As of [...]
Research from the US suggests that mind body techniques like yoga and meditation that put the body in a state of deep rest known as the relaxation response, are capable of changing how genes behave in response to stress.
The study is the work of researchers at Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General [...]
The declining state of the Nation’s economy is taking a physical and emotional toll on all people nationwide, yet financial stress is impacting women and Hispanics in particular, according to data from the American Psychological Association’s newly released 2008 Stress in America survey.
When asked about the recent financial crisis, almost half of all adults [...]
Exercises that elicit the relaxation response can help your body erase the cumulative effects of stress, according to “Stress Management: Techniques for Preventing and Easing Stress,” a new report from Harvard Medical School. The report explains that stress has been linked with such physical problems as heart attack, stroke, gastrointestinal problems and asthma, as well [...]
About 15% to 20% of U.S. soldiers in Iraq have signs of depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, and about 30% of soldiers on their third or fourth tours have experienced emotional illnesses, according to a study released on Thursday by the Army, USA Today reports (Zoroya, USA Today, 3/7). The survey included anonymous [...]
Employees with symptoms of burnout are actually less likely to participate in work-based interventions such as stress reduction or occupational training than workers without burnout, reports a study in the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM ).
In contrast, workers with burnout [...]
The trial is an eight-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, exploratory study being conducted in 20 sites in the United States. It will assess the efficacy and tolerability of rufinamide in up to 230 patients with general anxiety disorder, as measured by multiple psychometric assessment tools. Patients randomized to rufinamide will receive 250mg twice a day for one [...]
Research published online in the Journal of Proteome Research, shows how improving the diet of rats placed in stressful environments did not normalise their metabolic profile, an indicator of their health.
The team from Imperial College London and the Nestle Research Centre divided 36 rats into groups of six. Groups A to D [...]
One-third of Americans are living with extreme stress and nearly half of Americans (48 percent) believe that their stress has increased over the past five years. Stress is taking a toll on people – contributing to health problems, poor relationships and lost productivity at work, according to a new national survey released today by the [...]
There is broad consensus today that personality traits are best described by the “Big Five”: Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. Each of these broad measures can be broken down into smaller ones, but in general, this taxonomy appears to take in most of what we think of as personhood. When [...]
