Yale Stress Center

Stress plays a key role in many chronic illnesses including depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), Substance Use Disorders (SUD), chronic pain, heart disease, diabetes, and some forms of cancer. But there has been relatively little research on how people naturally adapt to stress to promote resilient coping versus managing stress by engaging in addictive health behaviors that worsen health.

The Yale Stress Center conducts cutting-edge interdisciplinary research that focuses on understanding the toxic effects of multi-level stress responses across the brain, body and in health behaviors and choices, and develop and test new prevention and treatments to reverse these effects and restore adaptive stress responses to promote health and wellness.