General adaptation syndrome (GAS), also known as Selye's syndrome, describes the changes your body goes through when you experience stress. It involves three stages of stress-induced changes: your ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Back in the 1930s, Hans Selye, an Austrian born physician, described a characteristic adaptation syndrome that occurred when an organism was exposed to "diverse noxious agents," or "stressors." These ...

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, ...