For decades, ecologists lumped everything bad for animals under one word: stress. But what if animals don’t experience harsh environments as stressful at all? What if it is the opposite? Animals have ...

The study points to lasting changes in the locus coeruleus, a brain region that plays a critical role in attention, memory, ...

For people with eczema, stress can trigger flare-ups and worsen their itchy rashes. But the link between stress and skin ...

Early life stress may set the stage for long-term digestive problems by disrupting the gut-brain connection. Studies in both ...

In a new study in mice published on Thursday in Science, researchers showed how skin cells inherit patterns of gene ...

Scientists have used a tiny plastic obstacle course to find out if sperm would struggle to “navigate” during sex in space.

Skin conditions such as psoriasis often flare up in the same spots throughout one’s life. Now scientists think they know why ...

One of the most puzzling aspects of common chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis is how they become chronic.

Early life stress may lead to digestive issues later in life, driven by changes in the gut and sympathetic nervous systems, ...

(Kinga Krzeminska/Moment/Getty Images) It's been known for some time that psychological stress can make eczema (atopic ...