A brand new mind connection can clarify how early-life stress and adversity set off disrupted operation of the mind's reward circuit, providing a brand new therapeutic goal for treating psychological sickness. Impaired perform of this circuit is assumed to underlie a number of main problems, equivalent to melancholy, substance abuse ...

Feminine and male hearts reply otherwise to 'battle or flight' stress hormone, in response to a brand new examine in mice. It could assist clarify intercourse variations in arrhythmia danger.

Corals reside symbiotically with quite a lot of microscopic algae that present a lot of the power corals require, and a few algae could make coral extra resilient to warmth stress. In assessing one of many essential reef builders in Hawai'i, Montipora capitata or rice coral, researchers discovered that the ...

An enzyme known as Fic, whose biochemical function was found greater than a dozen years in the past, seems to play an important half in guiding the mobile response to emphasize, a brand new examine suggests. The findings may ultimately result in new therapies for a wide range of ailments. ...

Outcomes from the most important potential research of its variety point out that within the preliminary days and weeks after experiencing trauma, people going through probably threatening conditions who had much less exercise of their hippocampus developed extra extreme posttraumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD) signs.

The World Well being Group (WHO) not too long ago listed a brand new sibling analysis for post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD), termed complicated post-traumatic stress dysfunction (CPTSD). A global workforce has now summarized the signs of the long-awaited new analysis and issued tips for medical evaluation and remedy.

A stress protein that's overactive in lots of forms of tumor cells additionally has a key function in tumor-supporting cells referred to as fibroblasts, and could also be goal for future most cancers remedies, suggests a brand new research.

New observations of the atomic construction of iron reveal it undergoes 'twinning' underneath excessive stress and strain.

COVID-19 survivors report considerably increased signs of post-traumatic stress, and these signs are related to adjustments to the mind's connectivity, in response to a brand new research.

Final yr, researchers reported that reductive stress -- an imbalance within the regular oxidation/discount homeostasis -- induced pathological modifications related to coronary heart failure in a mouse mannequin. Now, researchers describe the putative molecular regulators of this pathological power reductive stress -- a microRNA community.