The notion that stress and cancer are interlinked has dominated lay discourse for decades.
More recent animal studies indicate that stress can substantially facilitate cancer …

Anti-angiogenic therapy is an old method to fight cancer that aims to abolish the nutrient and
oxygen supply to the tumor cells through the decrease of the vascular network and the …

Empirical and anecdotal evidence has associated stress with accelerated hair greying
(formation of unpigmented hairs),, but so far there has been little scientific validation of this …

Two decades of research indicate causal associations between social relationships and
mortality, but important questions remain as to how social relationships affect health, when …

BACKGROUND The social environment shapes human health, producing strong
relationships between social factors, disease risk, and survival. The strength of these links …

A growing literature in human social genomics has begun to analyze how everyday life
circumstances influence human gene expression. Social-environmental conditions such as …

The ability to alter one's emotional responses is central to overall well-being and to
effectively meeting the demands of life. One of the chief symptoms of events such as trauma …

Beta-adrenergic signaling has been found to regulate multiple cellular processes that
contribute to the initiation and progression of cancer, including inflammation, angiogenesis …

Social homeostasis is the ability of individuals to detect the quantity and quality of social
contact, compare it to an established set-point in a command center, and adjust the effort …

Creating a healthy, social classroom environment. This book explains how the brain, as a
social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late …