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Stress: Science and Strategies to Live Well (Audio)

Researchers from the University of California provide scientific insight into why our bodies react the way they do to stress, as well as what we can do to manage stress in our day-to-day lives.

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Worrying Well: How Your Brain Can Turn Anxiety and Stress Into Calmness and Confidence

Worrying Well: How Your Brain Can Turn Anxiety and Stress Into Calmness and Confidence

Physician, author, speaker, researcher, and consultant Martin L. Rossman, MD, discusses how to use the power of the heal... Read more

15 Mar 2010

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Women and Sleep: From Stressful to Restful

Women and Sleep: From Stressful to Restful

Sleep deprivation takes a huge toll on society. Kathryn Lee, UCSF School of Nursing, explores sleep, fatigue, and circad... Read more

18 Feb 2013

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Learning to Relax

Learning to Relax

Marcia Degelman, Certified Massage Therapist and Integrative Medicine Practitioner at UCSF’s Osher Center, discusses how... Read more

9 Jun 2010

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Staying Sane Through Difficult Times

Staying Sane Through Difficult Times

Stress is ubiquitous and on the rise. How we learn to manage it can have profound effects on our health and well being. ... Read more

24 Mar 2008

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The Entanglement of Meditation and Medicine and What Love’s Got to Do With It with Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, which teaches participants how to navig... Read more

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The Female Brain: Balancing Social Expectations with Your Own Health

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Dr. Louann Brizendine is a neuropsychiatrist interested in all aspects of the human mind. The author of “The Female Brai... Read more

4 Feb 2013

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Outsmarting Stress and Enhancing Resilience

Outsmarting Stress and Enhancing Resilience

Margaret A. Chesney, UCSF Professor of Medicine and Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, discusses tec... Read more

11 Nov 2013

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Causes of Workplace Burnout

Causes of Workplace Burnout

Beating burnout is hard under the best circumstances but even harder when things happen. Dr. Larissa Thomas discusses th... Read more

13 Nov 2018

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Overcoming the Superwoman Syndrome: Creating Your Personal Path to Wellness

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Today’s fast-paced women can find themselves caught up in what has been called the “Superwoman Syndrome.” Women often fe... Read more

11 Mar 2013

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The Effects of Early Life Stress on Brain and Behavior

The Effects of Early Life Stress on Brain and Behavior

Yale University's BJ Casey shares an in-depth look into the detrimental effects on the brain resulting in behavioral and... Read more

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Staying in the Now: Maintaining Mental Health Through Mindfulness

Staying in the Now: Maintaining Mental Health Through Mindfulness

Dr. Stuart Eisendrath, director of the UCSF Depression Center, explores mindfulness as a technique for maintaining menta... Read more

1 Feb 2010

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Stress is the Norm: It’s How you Cope with it that Matters

Stress is the Norm: It’s How you Cope with it that Matters

The National Center of Excellence in Women's Health and Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UC San Francisco presen... Read more

1 Jun 2009

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Stress and Obesity - The Exposome and Metabolic Health - 2018 COAST/SSEW Symposium

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Barbara Laraia, PhD, UC Berkeley, reveals why neighborhoods and stress have a major impact on obesity and pregnancy. Ser... Read more

4 Oct 2018

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Biofeedback: Self-Mastery Beyond Pills

Biofeedback: Self-Mastery Beyond Pills

Stress is ubiquitous and on the rise. How we learn to manage it can have profound effects on our health and well being. ... Read more

17 Mar 2008

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Mind Your Heart: Stress Mental Health and Heart Disease

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UCSF’s Dr. Mary Whooley explores how psychological stress, particularly depression, influences the onset and progression... Read more

25 Feb 2013

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Stress and Cancer: From Science to Personal Perspective - 2019 Bay Area Neuroendocrine Tumor Patient Conference

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Sonia Lupien, PhD (University of Montreal) explores the science behind stress, our biology, and illness. She discusses t... Read more

28 Feb 2019

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Family Caregiving as Fate but Also Opportunity: Views from Mind and Body

Family Caregiving as Fate but Also Opportunity: Views from Mind and Body

Elissa Epel, UCSF health psychologist, looks at social and psychobiological difficulties involved with caregiving and of... Read more

4 Mar 2013

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Emotions Stress and Rate of Telomere Shortening: Are Our Cells Listening to Us?

Emotions Stress and Rate of Telomere Shortening: Are Our Cells Listening to Us?

Does stress speed up the aging process at a genetic level? Our cells are constantly aging. When cell divide some telomer... Read more

9 Apr 2012

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Coping and Resilience: How to Cope with Unattainable Goals

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Alex Zautra examines human resilience as a powerful force in coping. Carsten Wrosch looks at the challenges in adjustin... Read more

10 Mar 2010

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The New Science of Stress and Stress Resilience

The New Science of Stress and Stress Resilience

Learn how to build mental and physical resilience when managing the stress of everyday life with UCSF’s Elissa Epel. Se... Read more

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