Extreme stress during childhood can hurt social learning for years to come
Researchers explore how early extreme childhood stress can have a negative impact on social learning and mental health later in life.
Researchers explore how early extreme childhood stress can have a negative impact on social learning and mental health later in life.
What happens when you hear someone do any of the following: smacking their lips while eating, slurping drinks, breathing, yawning, sniffling, humming, tapping their fingers, typing or texting with the keyboard clicks switched on?
A recent study finds that older adults are better than younger adults at anticipating stressful events at home – but older adults are not as good at using those predictions to reduce the adverse impacts of the stress.
Well-being in later life is largely dependent on psychosocial factors. Physical impairments tend to play a secondary role, as scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered. The results of their recent study are published in ‘BMC Geriatrics’.