For some people, a fleeting sense of nervousness or a period of normal stress may resolve itself back into a kind of normal ...

Amy Knight, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology, discusses why and how chronic stress can affect one’s brain and overall health. What is ...

The teenage stage of life has been classified as the exciting, energetic, and potential stage, but it has also been ...

With all that has happened in 2020, it is normal to feel some level of stress, burnout, worry, sadness, or mental exhaustion. However, rates of mental illness have also risen significantly in 2020 ...

Hippocrates wrote that we are all beset by disturbing forces that upset our balance (1). Fortunately, there are restorative forces that can re-establish balance. Galen called these Vis Medicatrix ...

In this video we explore bending and shear stresses in beams. A bending moment is the resultant of bending stresses, which are normal stresses acting perpendicular to the beam cross-section. We can ...

Principal stresses are defined as the maximum and minimum normal stresses in a plane. Principal stresses are perpendicular to each other and oriented such that shear stresses are zero. For 3D stress ...

As a prior trauma therapist, I've personally witnessed over 1,000 clients' stories of life stressors. For these clients, some stressors were crippling; others were merely annoyances. The common thread ...

A researcher slips stickers under some colored cups on a lazy Susan, then gives the tray a whirl. When the spinning stops, a preschooler must find the hidden stickers. Most children remember where the ...