You may use defense mechanisms to help protect you from stress, but they can be both helpful and harmful. Recognizing defense ...

In stressful times, we may utillize even more methods of stress reduction; however, we may be relying on some coping mechanisms that are not healthy for us and those around us. Denial is a human ...

We are living through challenging times. Our current moment is wrought with strife, global unrest, and instability in government, and attacks on education are top of mind for many. Americans are also ...

A (light green) bacterial cell detects a source of stress and is activated (dark green). It adorns itself with alarmones (depicted as red triangles) and can transmit them via cell-to-cell contact with ...

Bird flu may be particularly severe in humans because the viruses have shown to be resistant to fever - one of our body's most important defence systems. The human body's temperature will climb in ...