A new study finds that loneliness may increase certain proteins in the brain that increase your risk for disease and death.

Social media use impacts the neuroendocrine system, which is implicated in stress responses. This is not surprising: Everything you do impacts the system in multiple ways. However, some things do it ...

The Healthy Opportunities Pilots program, established in 2021, helps eligible Medicaid enrollees have better health outcomes by addressing their social needs related to housing, food, transportation, ...

38, No. 2, GENERAL ISSUE (SUMMER/FALL 2022), pp. 1-17 (17 pages) This study explores how teenage Syrian refugees use their social networks to cope with stressors. Through interviews with nine youth ...

In addition to prenatal psychosocial stress, Pardo explored whether prenatal neighborhood social cohesion was a protective factor for postpartum hypertension risk—a first investigation of its kind.

Social media is connected with the experience of stress 1, and too much stress impairs our abilities to remember, switch across many tasks, and sometimes impacts our ability to control our impulses 2.