Stress responses help us navigate our environment and respond appropriately to threats.
Stress systems communicate threats to the entire organism, and as such, also stimulate …

Various internal and external factors negatively affect the homeostatic equilibrium of
organisms at the molecular to the whole-body level, inducing the so-called state of stress …

Urban residence is associated with a higher risk of some psychiatric disorders, but the
underlying drivers remain unknown. There is increasing evidence that the level of exposure …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal …

Classic theories of stress and health are largely based on assumptions regarding how
different psychosocial stressors influence biological processes that, in turn, affect human …

Centuries of human activities, particularly housing and transportation practices from the late
19th century through the 1980's, dispersed hundreds of millions of tons of lead into our …

Social Safety Theory hypothesizes that developing and maintaining friendly social bonds is
a fundamental organizing principle of human behavior and that threats to social safety are a …

Chronic inflammation contributes to the onset and progression of cardiovascular disease
and other degenerative diseases of aging. But does it have to? This article considers the …

In the constructed habitat in which we spend up to 90% of our time, architectural design
influences occupants' behavioral patterns, interactions with objects, surfaces, rituals, the …