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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Our understanding of how fear, and more specifically stress, affects our health can largely be attributed to one individual named Dr. Hans Selye, a medical doctor specializing in the endocrine ...

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 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, ...

2 of 8 — This ad for Spud cigarettes asks if smokers turn to cigarettes to calm down. If so, Spuds are the solution. Spud,1929. 3 of 8 — Camel used the confessions of working smokers to show that ...