What’s special about vicars? This study, from Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, looked into the question: “Psychosocial stress among Danish vicars,” F. Gyntelberg, H. O. Hein and P. Suadicani, Occupational Medicine (2012) 62 (1): 12-16. The authors explain: “No studies have analysed whether differences in psychosocial workloads between vicars and others explain their higher prevalence of stress-related […]
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Mathematicians’ Dilemma: anxiety vs. coffee
By tradition and for other reasons, some mathematicians spend some of their time wondering whether stress causes some of their sleeplessness or all of it, or whether coffee causes all of their sleeplessness or some of it, or whether they should direct their worry partly or fully toward something else. Next week, at a conference […]
Headline of the Day: Blood, Spit & Burnout
Today’s Headline of the Day comes from a University of Montreal press release: Simple spit and blood tests might detect burnout before it happens The press release goes on to say: Your blood and the level of a hormone in your spit could reveal if you’re on the point of burnout, according to research undertaken […]
Cats, Left-pawed Mice, stress chemicals
Investigator Richard Wassersug alerts us to this study, saying “This paper looks quite technical, but it is also rather cute. Who would have thought that stress responses in the brain, as measured by immunological defenses were so lateralized?” “Predator exposure-induced cerebral interleukins are modulated heterogeneously by behavioral asymmetry“, Yun Su, Zefeng Xie, Gang Xin, Lichun […]