Long-term stress leaves measurable traces in your arteries, immune cells and brain tissue.

A new study published in Nature has shown that fear and the immune system are linked in previously unknown ways, with the immune system potentially influencing stress and fear behaviors. The study ...

Stress affects many systems in our body and biologists Marcel Schaaf and Erin Faught at Radboud University are figuring out how that works. Their recent study showed how stress changes behavior by ...

Karin de Punder, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, has conducted research on how chronic stress accelerates the aging of the immune system and its ...

A protein made by stressed cancer cells helps lung and pancreatic tumors evade the immune system, a new study shows. Led by researchers from NYU Langone Health, the work found that new drugs designed ...

Chronic stress exerts profound and multifaceted impacts on immune function, orchestrated through enduring activation of stress response systems and resultant alterations in cellular and molecular ...

Psychological stress engages a complex network of neural, endocrine and immune pathways that together determine the organism’s capacity to respond to challenge. Acute stress triggers activation of the ...

When food is scarce, stress hormones direct the immune system to operate in "low power" mode to preserve immune function while conserving energy, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.

In 2019 I wrote about research suggesting anti-inflammatory medications might help some people with major depression. At the time, the idea that depression could have roots in the immune system felt ...