Acupuncture heightens our awareness such that stressful events, initially, can actually be felt more acutely.
On this basis, the data suggest that the UHT treatment may have been initially stressful, but that the level of perceived stress abated as the rats adapted, or habituated, to it.
Rothman and his wife Molly took two children, ages 8 and 14, along on their French sabbatical at the Institut Jacques Monod, and they acknowledge the move was initially stressful for the kids.
So, although the disruption in the middle of my thesis work was initially stressful, in the end it all worked out and gave me the golden opportunity to interact with a lot of outstanding scientists.
The relationship of putative stress with changes in bodyweight is somewhat equivocal [e.g. 54 56], but stress is typically associated with a lower rate of weight gain, or indeed weight loss [e.g. 57,58] which can recover as animals appear to adapt to initially stressful events [e.g. 59,60].
Specifically, whenever the patient anticipated a moderately stressful incident, urine cortisol initially increased 24 h before the incident and then decreased 12 h before the incident.
By all accounts, the difficulty of the new procedure makes cardiac surgery even more stressful than usual, at least initially.
These false alarms were initially perceived as very stressful but, over time, they became a "normal" disturbance: "I don't really sleep at night.
Initially, she found fund-raising stressful.
If you quit your job and start a business, it can be very stressful if you don't make money initially (and it's very rare that you will).
