Early aging tied to chronic stress Study finds evidence mind is ...
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Researchers at UC San Francisco say they have found the first direct evidence that severe and chronic emotional stress can age people biologically.
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Stress can prove fatal for people with 'faulty wiring' between the brain and the heart, research has suggested.
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NEW YORK  - People who stay just as active after age 70 as they did before are less likely to experience age-related declines in mental functioning, new study findings suggest.
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Long-term stress can make people sick and grow old before their time, according to a new study that has identified the first direct link between stress and aging, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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The stress of caring for a sick child can add 10 or more years to the biological age of a woman&#39;s cells, researchers have found.
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NEW YORK  - An animal study indicates that the cognitive impairment that can occur in people with diabetes appears to result from high levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
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Men who participate in longer and more intense physical activity as they age will maintain more of their memory and thinking abilities, compared with men who don&#39;t, according to new research.
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Two large studies, one focusing on women and the other on men, found that elderly people who walked were more likely to maintain cognitive function.
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NEW YORK  - People who have a tendency to  worry or feel very stressed out may be more likely to develop  Alzheimer's disease later in life, new research reports.
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Researchers studied the immune cells of women under extreme mental stress. They&#39;ve found that those cells age more rapidly in stressed-out women than in women living more normal lives.
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Psychological stress appears to speed cellular aging the equivalent of up to 17 years of normal aging. The difference shows up in telomeres, DNA-protein structures that cap the end of chromosomes.
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Life may begin at 40, but research suggests that 44 is the age at which we are most vulnerable to depression.
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Women who feel chronically  stressed may have a lower risk of developing uterine cancer  than their less harried peers, researchers have found.
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A mechanism in the brain may explain why some people keep their cool and others crumble under stress, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Positive emotions improve physical, functional health of older adults    HealthDayNews -- Positive thoughts can help older people maintain their physical and functional health, while negative emotions can cause a rapid decline, say two studies in the September issue of Psychology and Aging.    In the first study, University of Texas researchers tracked 1,558 older Mexican-Americans in five southwestern states for seven years...
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People who are often stressed out or depressed are far more likely to develop memory problems than those with sunnier dispositions, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that sheds light on early predictors of Alzheimer's disease.
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Chronic stress may take a bigger toll on a woman's immune system than divorce or job loss, a new study suggests.