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The Stress and Exercise Relationship

2 April 2026

Physical exercise and stress have a two-way relationship: exercise can reduce stress, and stress can make it h...

26 March 2026

Cortisol is a steroid hormone (a glucocorticoid) made by the adrenal glands that sit on top of your kidneys. I...

19 March 2026

Stress significantly influences cognitive processes, with effects varying between acute and chronic exposure, ...

12 March 2026

Stress plays a significant role in triggering and worsening autoimmune diseases by disrupting the body’s immun...

5 March 2026

Traumatic bereavement refers to the intense psychological distress that arises when a loved one’s death occurs...

26 February 2026

Anger is a specific form of the stress response that recruits the same core physiological systems as stress in...

19 February 2026

Psychological stress and aging are bidirectionally linked, where chronic stress can accelerate biological and ...

12 February 2026

Chronic stress is a long-lasting state of feeling under pressure, threatened, or overwhelmed that keeps the bo...

5 February 2026

Chronic stress appears to modestly increase cancer risk and worsen outcomes through hormonal, immune, and infl...

29 January 2026

Emotional and personality dysfunctions are common and clinically important in early psychosis and even in clin...

22 January 2026

Substance misuse is extremely common in first episode psychosis (FEP), worsens virtually every important outco...

15 January 2026

Suicide risk is markedly elevated around the time of first episode psychosis (FEP), but intensive, early, inte...