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The Pressure to Perform

Assessing mental health risks for those in the public eye

Are those who perform before the public—hundreds, thousands, even millions of spectators at a time—at heightened risk of mental illness? It’s complicated.
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How Stress Affects the Brain

Stress is a normal part of life, but when it becomes long-term or overwhelming, it can be harmful. Learn what happens in your brain when you’re stressed, how stress can negatively affect your body, and what practices you can adopt to help keep it under control. One of our videos in partnership with Everwell.
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Want to Boost Your Immune System? Sleep Better

Q&A with Robert W. Greene, M.D., Ph.D.

We talk with Robert W. Greene, M.D., Ph.D., about how sleep can help us fight off viruses and other infections and how to get a better night’s rest.
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Don’t Panic: How Stressful Situations Affect the Brain

Q&A with Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana Alliance member Eric Nestler explains the difference between stress and panic, how stress can lead to resilience, and how we can help ourselves cope.
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Mental Well-Being of Family Caregivers

Science Probes How Positive and Negative Aspects of Caregiving Affect Health

Caregiving and stress often go hand in hand. We review current research and offer tips for avoiding the problems caused by chronic stress.
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Using Neuroscience Evidence to Argue Against Solitary Confinement

From scathing reports to court cases, advocates at a Society for Neuroscience meeting describe their efforts to end the mentally harmful practice of confining people.
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Understanding Stress at a Deeper Level

Report from Neuroscience 2017

Researchers look to genes, glia, and neurogenesis to tease out how stress leads to disease and try to find biological clues to who is at greatest risk. Report from the recent SfN meeting.
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Highlighting Prenatally Damaged Neurons that Remain Vulnerable After Birth

Some of the neurons in mice stressed while in embryo show persistent damage. A new technique that pinpoints the harm could help explain individual differences in stress response later in life.
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Stress, Neuropeptide Interaction, and Relapse: A Neurobiological Addiction Story

Relapsing may have more to do with altered stress pathways than pleasure-seeking pathways.
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The Darkness Within: Individual Differences in Stress

Factors ranging from age and gender to life experiences and cultural background make us react to situations differently. But biological bases, such as the way genetics and neurochemicals affect our brains, are providing insight into addiction, post traumatic stress disorder, and stressful situations that we face every day.
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