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Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
Reproductive Health - Stress is a Double Whammy
Stress is known to decrease fertility and sexual behavior, but researchers thought this was because stress hormones reduce levels of a...
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Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
Obesity is as much a psychological problem, as it is a physical one
Psychological issues can not only foreshadow the development of obesity, but they can also follow ongoing struggles to control weight....
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Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
Effect on Immune Response of Chronic Stress vs Episodic Severe Stress
"Many studies have demonstrated that psychological stress, through its suppression of both innate and adaptive immune responses, may be...
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Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
Migraine and Repeated Stressors
"Migraine offers a unique model to understand the consequences of repeated stressors on the brain." "...the effects of repeated stress...
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Kevin McGuinness
Aug 27, 2020
A Curious Connection Between Tinnitus and Physical Activity
A study out of the University of Illinois revealed not only that those who have tinnitus process emotional sounds differently than those...
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Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Aug 14, 2020
Manage Stress, COVID-19's Companion
Today, the companion of stress is Covid-19 (Coronavirus). Since 1 March 2020 the individual, community, national and global experience of...
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Kevin McGuinness
Aug 5, 2020
Genes and the Heart/Brain Connection
“The complex network that links the heart, brain and the main biological systems provides a new vision of cardiovascular science[, which...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 31, 2020
Stress and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) in women
“Stress is an invisible factor affecting modern day living and is strongly associated with many disease [processes] including polycystic...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 30, 2020
Osteoporotic Fracture and Psychological Stress
"With the aging of the population, osteoporotic fracture is an important public health issue. Both animal and human studies indicate that...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 29, 2020
Chronic Stress and Biologic Aging
“Chronic psychological stress appears to accelerate biological aging, and oxidative damage is an important potential mediator of this...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 28, 2020
Eczema & Psychological Stress
“Atopic Dermatitis (AD) [(aka Eczema)] is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin that results from interplay of environmental...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 23, 2020
Teach Stress Management - NOW in Public Schools
Some scientists suggest that future interventions at the cellular level may help to manage the disease consequences of psychological...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 22, 2020
Self-image, the Skin and the Mind
"This bidirectional intimate relationship of the skin and the mind emphasizes the importance of a holistic and interdisciplinary approach...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 21, 2020
Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Stress
“Chronic stress and endocrine stress responses are significantly associated with glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and diabetes...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 20, 2020
Stress and Migraine Attacks
“Stress as a trigger for migraine attacks is present in nearly 70% of individuals “High levels of stress are reported in migraine...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 19, 2020
Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) is a PHYSICAL health specialty
Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) is a PHYSICAL health specialty that investigates and implements clinical services across diverse...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 18, 2020
Depression and Inflammation
“[D]epression facilitates inflammation, which promotes depression [with] adverse health consequences for [heart] disease, diabetes,...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 17, 2020
Stress Management Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis
Thought for the Day: “This trial indicates that Stress Management Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis (SMT-MS) may be useful in reducing the...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 16, 2020
Common Factors of Disease Flare in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Thought for the Day: The authors of this study found that the “most common factors for disease flare in patients with Rheumatoid...
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Kevin McGuinness
Jul 15, 2020
Unmanaged Psychological Stress Raises Disease Vulnerability
“The experience of psychological stress triggers neuroendocrine, inflammatory, metabolic, and transcriptional [changes] that ultimately...
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