Posts Tagged ‘stress’
Stress, Telomeres, New Clinical Tests & the Real World
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
People who attended the Cardiff conference, WBI University or have heard my speeches or workshops, know that I emphasize the science of stress to convey the seriousness of bullying’s impact on people. The primary impact of bullying is the onset of stress-related diseases and other health complications.
Elizabeth Blackburn won the 2009 Nobel prize for Medicine and Physiology. I previously wrote about her work. Briefly, she discovered 20 years ago the telomere, chromosome-protecting caps at the end of strands of DNA. Telomere damage or shortening translates to advanced cellular aging. (more…)
Tags: aging, Elissa Epel, Elizabeth Blackburn, genetic testing, stress, telomeres, UCSF
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Health harm from joblessness: Does anybody care?
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Finally, read about the health consequences of joblessness, the human side of a “down economy” in response to the heartlessness of politicians.
Worklessness and health – what do we know about the causal
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Tags: cardiovascular, employee health, health, joblessness, stress, unemployment
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WBI Recommends Robert Sapolsky, Stress Expert
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
WBI loves his popularization of the neuroscience of prolonged stress and its impact on health. Adult targets of bullying at work should appreciate his insights. His book Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping a veritable textbook for those of us not in medical school to which we refer in speeches and WBI University. Purchase his book.
Listen to two of his speeches at our Audio library.
Read one of his articles written for general audiences. [The influence of social hierarchy on primate health. Science, 2005, 308, 648-652.]
Tags: coping with stress, neuroscience, Sapolsky, stress, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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A 2009 Nobel Prize, Stress and Bullying at Work
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Elizabeth Blackburn
The 2009 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine was won by Elizabeth Blackburn and two others for the discovery of “how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.” Telomere shortening makes humans age faster than they otherwise would. Blackburn, the 60-year old biochemist at the University of California, San Francisco , oversees diverse applications of the science from her lab. Read reporter Katherine Seligman’s profile of the scientist.
Tags: aging, Elissa Eppel, Elizabeth Blackburn, Katherine Seligman, oxidative stress, stress, telomerase, telomere
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Stress, Brain Changes & Bad Habits
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Much of the health harm created by bullying comes from relentless exposure to stress. Targets’ ability to think is muddied. Along with the paralysis of anxiety and depression they feel “stuck in a rut” and fail to respond to external changes or opportunities around them. New research published in Science suggests why all of this may happen. Stressed rats, more than unstressed rats, performed habitual behaviors. More alarming is that their brains physically changed from the stress. Further, brain areas associated with goal-directed behavior (decisions, getting things done) actually shrunk and areas associated with habitual actions and sensorimotor responses (going on auto-pilot) grew. The profound lesson is that stress not only limits behavior but changes brain structure too.
Tags: habitual behavior, N. Sousa, NY Times, prefrontal cortex, R. M. Costa, Sapolsky, Science, stress, stress response
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Podcast 1: Stress & the Economic Crisis
Monday, May 11th, 2009
The Dark Side of the World of Work
First official WBI podcast
A welcome and warning about the stress-related pressures the economic crisis brings.
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Tags: Podcast, stress, unemployment
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