Is college stressing you out? It could be the way your courses are designed

Posted by Nichole Barta | April 14, 2023 | 0 responses

Stress is stopping students from enrolling in and staying in college. According to a recent survey of over 12,000 adults in the U.S., 63% of those 18 to 24 who had never attended college said emotional stress is one of the biggest reasons why they are not currently enrolled. And among those who do enroll, 41% thought […] … learn more→

Top causes of stress in the modern workplace

| February 1, 2022 | 0 responses

Stress is an extremely detrimental mental state for employees and employers alike. Individuals suffering chronic stress can have mental and physical health problems, such as depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and stroke. Meanwhile, organizations with stressed workforces likely suffer from lower productivity, lower-quality services and high employee turnover. It benefits workers and workplaces to identify […] … learn more→

Burn-out of students: those risks to be considered

Posted by Aline Vansoeterstede, Boujut Emilie and Emilie Cappe | November 11, 2021 | 0 responses

Much research has been carried out on stress in the workplace and its consequences on the health of workers. This concept is now widely integrated in the context of the prevention of psychosocial risks (PSR) at work. Currently, the idea that, within the school framework, the pupils can also be subjected to this type of risks begins to […] … learn more→

How race-related stress could be driving educators of color away from the job

| April 14, 2021 | 0 responses

When teachers of color experience high levels of race-based stress in schools, they can also have an increasingly negative sense of belonging, according to new research. For the study, we analyzed survey data from educators of color across Iowa. To get at whether they were experiencing race-based stress, we asked whether the educators felt supported raising concerns with […] … learn more→

Proven tips to have an effective study break

| April 26, 2019 | 0 responses

Studying hard and going through revisions to prepare for the upcoming exam season? Then you must be experiencing tough times due to long reading sessions. Ironically, a lot of students face hard times understanding what they read even after reading the same paragraph several times. However, you can make the most out of revisions and reading sessions […] … learn more→

PhD stress

| July 5, 2016 | 0 responses

Four years ago, while I was writing a paper for my Master’s degree at Oxford, I came down with a stomach bug. No, not a stomach bug, the mother of all stomach bugs. I had the worst stomach pain of my life; I had a fever; I couldn’t sleep, let alone eat. At one point […] … learn more→

Going, going, gone: the where and why of memory erasure

| January 29, 2013 | 0 responses

If you could erase your memories, which ones would you choose? As a neuroscientist, one of my raisons d’etre is to achieve, in a way, some form of memory erasure, especially for individuals that suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety or drug addiction. Each of these situations involves some form of persistent memory that interferes […] … learn more→

Why do academics work so much?

| January 17, 2013 | 0 responses

Recently a Forbes article claimed that being an academic was the least stressful job of 2013. However, a storm of protest on social media forced the author to add an addendum acknowledging that this probably wasn’t the case. In fact academics work a a lot and that work tends to intensify in the so called […] … learn more→

Addicts’ cravings have different roots in men and women

| February 2, 2012 | 0 responses

When it comes to addiction, gender matters. A new brain imaging study by Yale School of Medicine researchers suggests stress robustly activates areas of the brain associated with craving in cocaine-dependent women, while drug cues activate similar brain regions in cocaine-dependent men. The study, expected to be published online Jan. 31 in the American Journal […] … learn more→

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