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 ...

The experiment seemed to be a dismal failure. The young researcher at Montreal’s McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone.

People frequently say that some stress is good for us, that it's a motivator, and that without it we would be bored. This notion of "good stress" was first proposed by stress research pioneer Hans ...

The tobacco industry played an influential role in the funding and popularization of stress research. A vast document archive details the... The Secret History Behind The Science Of Stress The modern ...

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 1936, endocrinologist Hans Selye performed experiments on rats. He was studying the effects of a new hormone, and so he injected the hormone into lab rats, hoping to observe how it affects them.

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, ...