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5 questions: Richard Shaw on parents of preemies and post-traumatic stress disorder

preemie_and_dad.jpgCocooned in tubes and wires, too fragile to be held, small, sick newborns fight for life in neonatal intensive care units. Though many go home healthy, the babies' harrowing starts leave indelible marks on their parents.

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Time to Detox the Work Environment

work_stress.jpgCorporate practices are having effects not just on polar bears and wetlands, but also they may be killing human beings, says Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer.

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Surprising findings about stress

sapolsky2.jpgVIDEO: Neuroscience professor, Robert Sapolsky, discusses the impact of stress on humans and his suprising findings about stress from almost thirty years of studying wild baboons in East Africa.

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Killer stress is subject of TV special

sapolsky2.jpgStress is killing us, according to scientists, and a new National Geographic special exploring the latest research on how and why features Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, who has spent decades studying stress in humans and baboons.

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Suppression as coping mechanism increases stress

disgust_close.jpgIn the first-ever brain imaging study of techniques for emotion regulation, researchers found that suppression actually led to increased stress levels.

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