Research over the past three to four decades has clearly established that psychological
stress affects clinically relevant immune system outcomes, including inflammatory …

Scholarly and comprehensive yet accessible, this state-of-the-science work is widely
regarded as the definitive graduate-level psychology of religion text. The authors synthesize …

Objective To assess the association between stress related disorders and subsequent risk of
cardiovascular disease. Design Population based, sibling controlled cohort study. Setting …

Nearly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 13 men experience intimate partner violence (IPV) at some
time in their life. V ictims of IPV suffer significant negative health consequences because of …

Abstract Background About 83,000 COVID-19 patients were confirmed in China up to May
2020. Amid the well-documented threats to physical health, the effects of this public health …

Background: Preliminary evidence has shown inequities in coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19)–related cases and deaths in the United States. Objective: To explore the …

Numerous studies over the last 35 years report an increase in upper respiratory infection
(URI) symptoms in athletes during periods of heavy training and competition. Challenges …

Importance Psychological stress contributes to numerous diseases and may do so in part
through damage to telomeres, protective non-coding segments on the ends of …

The capacity to predict future events permits a creature to detect, model, and manipulate the
causal structure of its interactions with its environment. Behavioral experiments suggest that …

Over 60 years ago, Selye1 recognized the paradox that the physiologic systems activated by
stress can not only protect and restore but also damage the body. What links these …