The Swedish physiologist Hans Selye was a pioneer stress researcher. He discovered the processes that link stress with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer. Selye conducted very ...

Screens are pretty much everywhere we look these days and, I would wager, they’re here to stay. They are, after all, part-and-parcel of what he we’ve come to call the digital revolution. (Heck, I’m so ...

General adaptation syndrome (GAS), also known as Selye's syndrome, describes the changes your body goes through when you experience stress. It involves three stages of stress-induced changes: your ...

Whether avoiding predators in the bush or in the office, humans have always had to cope with stress. But use of the word to mean that familiar clammy-handed, racing-heart, jumpy-tense feeling was ...

In 2000, Canada issued a set of four stamps honouring “medical innovators.” These included Sir Frederick Banting who pioneered the use of insulin in diabetes, Dr. Maud Abbott, expert in congenital ...

The modern idea of stress began on a rooftop in Canada, with a handful of rats freezing in the winter wind. This was 1936 and by that point the owner of the rats, an endocrinologist named Hans Selye, ...

Stress was defined by Hans Selye in the 1950's as the "wear and tear on the body by anything - either positive or negative." When Dr. Selye studied stress there was not a lot of research documenting ...

In dealing with stress, aging, and retirement, I first describe the scientifically established facts constituting the basis of that now-vast field of medicine concerning stress. Since the relationship ...

This is part 10 of a series. Read the other articles in this series online at gosanangelo.com/lifestyle/faith-values. Dr. Hans Selye (1907-82), Hungarian-Canadian ...