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Amy Knight, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology, discusses why and how chronic stress can affect one’s brain and overall health. What is ...

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Many people may associate the brain with internal processes, such as thinking. Yet social health also relates to the brain, ...

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A study discovered a circuit in the brain that connects stress with increased glucose and therefore may link stress to type 2 diabetes. In stressful situations, this circuit from the amygdala to the ...

Elizabeth Lucas A UAB assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology has received a $3.5 ...

The human brain is an astonishing machine- complex, adaptive, and constantly reshaping itself in response to how we live. Yet ...