A bad night's sleep comes with a host of consequences, some of which aren't obvious right away. This is especially true when stressful situations — like a year defined by a pandemic — hit. Research ...

There is no such thing as a stress-free life. The experience of stress is a host of unpleasant sensations that can include pressure, anxiety, tightness, edginess, fear or claustrophobia. It’s ...

Persistent exhaustion is often blamed on stress, workload, or poor sleep, but a growing body of research points to something ...

That subtle flutter of your eyelids might seem like nothing more than a basic bodily function, but it’s actually broadcasting your mental state to everyone around you. Your blinking pattern—how ...

How do those factors change over the course of our lives? A new study aimed to find out. By looking at stress patterns in groups of adult of all ages, they discovered that stress, generally, gets ...

Holiday stress adds up fast. This hour-by-hour guide shows how small shifts throughout the day can make the season feel lighter.

Your body naturally responds to stress by tightening muscles as part of the ancient fight-or-flight response, but modern life has created a perfect storm of chronic tension that your conscious mind ...

Like so many organisms on the planet, when cells experience mosh-pit-level crowding, they may just become stressed. Yet unlike most other life forms, cells subject to physical stress from crowding by ...

High levels of stress as a teenager may come back to bite you later in life, scientists have warned. Stress is a serious issue among adolescents in the U.S, and being a teenager is hard at the best of ...

Researchers wanted to learn more about the coronavirus pandemic's impacts on stress levels during pregnancy and infant negative emotions. They analyzed data from expectant mothers who completed four ...