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It’s a stressful time to be a psychiatrist in America. Not a day seems to go by without a panicked patient or friend asking me how to stay grounded in the face of the political chaos that has suddenly ...

If you want to accentuate the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how prevalent it is. Lots of people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of women carry a gene that makes them ...

Introduction: As people age, chronic stress, resulting in prolonged or repeated activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, has been associated with long-term adverse health outcomes.