On the flipside of fight-or-flight is rest-and-digest. It’s the body’s way of rebalancing itself after the danger has passed.

Better stress assessment and tailored interventions could give clinicians the tools they need to fend off lasting damage.

Better assessment of stress and tailored approaches to combat it could give clinicians the tools they need to fend off lasting damage to health ...

Cannon Bard Theory is the theory that first proposed the fight or flight response. Learn more about it and how it can impact your health.

Following acute multiple trauma, hypothalamic stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and adrenal glands causes an increase in circulating corticoids and catecholamines, or a stress response ...

For 28-year-old research scholar Ahalya Basu* (name changed), life has quietly dulled into a loop of repetition. “Every day feels the same. I wake up, attend to my research work, and tick off to-do ...

Learn about the sympathetic nervous system, a branch of the autonomic nervous system that controls functions related to "fight or flight." ...

Females "tend and befriend" rather than "fight or flee." Higher stress hormone responses explain their higher incidence of ...

Constant stress can increase your risk for long-term health issues like heart attack and diabetes. Learn the toll stress can take on the body.

CAR T-cell therapy as option for diseases of the peripheral nervous system Our work shows that the targeted use of CAR T-cells is possible and of significant clinical benefit, even for severe ...

This study overall shows there is an interplay between the BBB and CB1 receptors on perivascular astrocytes that influences chronic stress resilience.