stress and Depression

As prices of food, fuel and general living increases faster and higher than ever before, many South Africans are feeling like their lives are spinning out of control.

The stress from the deepening debt many are floundering in has far-reaching effects [ … ]

Current research suggests that stress may activate immune cells in your skin, resulting in inflammatory skin disease.

Skin provides the first level of defence to infection, serving not only as a physical barrier, but also as a site for white blood cells [ … ]

Couples who hug, kiss and otherwise find ways to get close every day may have fewer stress hormones coursing through their bodies, a new study suggests.

The findings, reported in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, point to one potential reason that [ … ]

Neuroscientists from the University of Washington have found that a single exposure to uncontrollable stress impairs decision-making in rats for several days, making them unable to reliably seek out the larger of two rewards.

The research was presented [ … ]

No news is good news, right? Not necessarily, University of Toronto researchers found, according to the New York Times.

In fact, it's better to get bad news than no news at all, the newspaper reports, because not knowing something may increase anxiety [ … ]

Couples may be able to enhance one another's health by being more physically affectionate with one another, new research in Psychosomatic Medicine shows.

Couples who underwent training in "warm touch enhancement" and practiced the technique at home [ … ]

The good news is that wrinkles cannot be blamed on genetics alone, the bad news though is that stressful environmental factors, such as a divorce, abnormal weight loss and use of antidepressants also play a role.

"A person’s heritage may initially dictate [ … ]