Enhanced hydration increases the human cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress. If reduced water intake has the opposite effect, this would suggest controlling for water deprivation when studying such responses. Blood pressure, heart rate and parasympathetically dominated beat-to-beat heart rate fluctuations were assessed during resting baseline and mental stress. Two challenging cognitive-m...

background: parents of children with developmental problems are always bearing a load of stress. the aim of this study is to compare the stress in mothers of children with different disabilities to each other, considering their demographic background. materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study conducted in isfahan, iran during 2012 on 285 mothers of 6-12 years old children with chr...

human beings have always experienced disasters. a disaster may be brief,but its psychological effects may last for many years. these psychological effects are increasingly well documented.disasters affect not only those immediately involved, but also those whoknow the victims. this is perhaps particularly so when the victims arechildren. commonly when adults hear news of disasters they ask firs...

Stress is defined as a physical, mental or emotional response to events that causes bodily or mental tension. Every organ in the human body is affected by various types of diseases like infection caused by microbes, immunological, metabolic, endocrinal disturbances etc., Etiopathogenesis of many diseases are discovered and managed at any early stage, still some diseases are considered as idiopa...

Mental stress causes a substantial sympathetic response, thus increasing myocardial blood flow (MBF). However, the effects of mental stress on global CBF have not been elucidated. In this study, changes in CBF and MBF in relation to mental stress were measured by a dual positron emission tomography system that can measure CBF and MBF simultaneously. CBF and MBF were measured in 10 healthy men w...

M. Lewis and K.D. Rudolph (eds.), Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-9608-3_11, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Stressful life experiences represent the most well-established environmental predictor of psychopathology across the life-span. Research focused on children and adolescents, in particular, has documented a predictive relation between stre...

background: few studies have examined the relationship between perceived responsibilities by workers and job characteristics and experiences of stress. objective: to examine the relationship between job stress and work responsibilities and job characteristics. methods: we analyzed data from 2737 adults who were labor force participants in the province of alberta, canada. a logistic regression m...