Stress is not simply a response to acute stressful episodes. It occurs in the brain where a natural rhythmic pattern regulates the stress system of our body, even on a calm day. This rhythmic pattern ...

Sextinction anxiety rises fast when desire drops, and nothing feels more unsettling than wondering why your body and brain ...

A neuroscience expert unveils a method to quiet the mind and rethink how we manage stress, emotion and decision-making.

Have you ever stared blankly at a screen, forgotten simple tasks, or struggled to articulate your thoughts during a meeting? These moments of mental lapse might seem harmless at first, but when they ...

The good news? You don’t need to run a marathon or learn rocket science. From puzzles to knitting and music, there are plenty of sofa-friendly hobbies that could give your brain a meaningful workout.

When one partner is stressed, the other feels it too—not just emotionally, but on a biological level. New research on heart rate synchronization helps explain how.

Inducing acute stress reliably under controlled conditions remains a major challenge in scientific research. Finding paradigms that elicit stress reliably and remain ecologically valid is difficult.

You’ve heard it before. It’s not the stress that gets you, it’s your reaction to it. But it’s not easy for most of us to just let go of stress, is it? Chronic stress, stress happening over a prolonged ...

As we observe World Brain Tumor Day on June 8th, one of the most persistent misconceptions that needs addressing is the belief that stress directly causes brain tumors. While this myth continues to ...

Chronic sleep disruption doesn't just leave people tired and irritable. It may quietly undermine the gut's ability to repair ...

Researchers say the study provides insight into how early biological stress shapes addictive behaviors and identifies a ...

When Dr. Majid Fotuhi wrote his first book, 2002's The Memory Cure, he wanted to give it the subtitle "How to Prevent ...