Depression and anxiety may heighten cardiovascular disease risk through chronic stress pathways in the brain and body.

With the most wonderful — and for some, the most stressful — time of year underway, a University of Iowa researcher is ...

A new study uncovers a precise brain pathway that rapidly converts emotional stress into sudden wakefulness during NREM sleep.

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Share on Pinterest The collections of bacteria in the gut may play a role in the regulation of stress responses, an animal study suggests. Image credit: Justin Lewis/Getty Images. Experts are ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers showed that stress-sensitive neural circuits alter the gut microbiome by directly influencing duodenal glands. Gut microbiomes promote ...

A team of scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has discovered that inactivation of a stress pathway makes ER+ breast cancer cells ignore stress signals, allowing them to evade ...

The Secret Language of Plant Stress Signals When plants face stress, they activate a signaling cascade involving multiple ...

EPFL scientists have identified a molecular pathway that protects cells from lipid oxidation and ferroptosis, a regulated ...