Keeping your cool could be the key to keeping your mind. Researchers have long known that dementia risk goes up with age, family history, poor diet, lack of exercise and even the loss of hearing ...

Chronic stress reduces the production of BDNF, which impairs the brain’s ability to form new neural connections, further increasing the risk of cognitive decline. Professional implications ...

Take the Assessments. Thanks to Drs. Ruth Lytton, Virginia Tech, and John Grable, University of Georgia, for their development of the Risk Tolerance Assessment; and to Drs. Wookjae Heo, Purdue ...

Health, emotional well-being, financial, and family stress levels are associated with intracerebral hemorrhage risk after controlling for hypertension.

The Georgia State research team adapted four such assessments, including the Perceived Stress Scale, the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale and K6 ...

After eight years of monitoring, the patients with chronic stress were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, or some form of cognitive impairment, compared to cohort ...

Higher allostatic load, a measure of lifelong stress, correlated with increased risk for cancer mortality, especially among younger populations, according to study results published in SSM ...

Chronic stress can increase our risk for heart disease and strokes. It may also help cancer spread. How this works has remained a mystery—a challenge for cancer care. Xue-Yan He, a former postdoc in ...

Employer awareness, understanding and compliance with Health and Safety Executive (HSE) stress risk assessment requirements remains “worryingly” low, a poll has found. The survey by Occupational ...

Employers are being encouraged to risk-assess stress for backstage workers, with the launch of guidance released by the Association of British Theatre Technicians. The guidance, Mental Health and ...