I’ve been working hard on a proposal for a new book. This involves a lot of sitting and thinking. Since I started working on this project, a strange phenomenon has emerged. I want to clean all the ...

A short burst of stress—like the jolt of energy you feel when the car ahead of you jams on the brakes—can be helpful. It’s ...

When you're stressed at work, your brain doesn't want complexity; it wants a simple mental lifeline like "cognitive chunking" ...

Chronic stress affects the immune system and the brain. Researchers now show that a particular enzyme found in cells of the immune system enters the brain under stress. In mice, it causes them to ...

Why do stressful moments so often push people toward habits like drinking? A new study from Texas A&M University offers one ...

When active, gratitude and empathy circuits in the brain help to suppress stress pathways, and the more you use them the more accessible they become in the future. Meditation has become a hot topic in ...

While feeling the stress helped, what separated the people who lasted from those who stopped wasn't simply how intense the stress felt—it was how the brain's control network handled it, the ...