Your brain and body are deeply linked through the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, a hormonal system that manages stress and influences memory. When cortisol levels stay balanced, it ...

Saliva sampling, in the morning as well as during the day, is best done with strict reference to the timing of awakening rather than on exact, predefined hours; the latter underlies large inter-and ...

April 5, 2007 — A 2-year study found that, compared with a control group of nonbereaved children, children who lost a parent in the September 11, 2001 terror attack ...

In a study using a mouse model and human subjects, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Johns Hopkins Medicine show that stress from adolescent social isolation in mice elicits ...

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