Stress or trauma during childhood may leave people more vulnerable to mental health struggles and stress later in life.

Experiencing severe stress during childhood can make a person more vulnerable to anxiety, depression and other mood disorders ...

Researchers have discovered a new way that brain plasticity is controlled in early life, offering insight into the little-understood phenomenon of critical-period closure. In the months or years after ...

Scientists exploring how the brain responds to stress discovered molecular changes that can influence behavior long after an experience ends. They also identified natural resilience systems that help ...

What do dreams do? Dreams are a way for our brains to process stress and emotionally charged memories. This is one of the most well studied, commonly held theories about dreaming—that our brains ...

Stress may literally scramble the brain’s internal GPS. Researchers found that cortisol, a hormone released during stress, made people significantly worse at navigating a virtual environment and ...

Stress and alcohol are frequently framed as cause and effect: You feel overwhelmed, you drink, you calm down. In reality, alcohol may be disabling the very brain systems that would help you respond to ...

Brain damage isn’t limited to football players and boxers who take repeated blows to the head. Scientists say chronic job stress can also alter brain structure in ways that harm memory, focus and ...