Men, women respond differently to stress -- UPI

Men have a "fight-or-flight" response to stress while women are more likely to "tend-and-befriend," a U.S. researcher suggests.

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers found that different parts of the brain activate with different spatial and temporal profiles for men and women when they are faced with performance-related stress.

Lead author J.J. Wang said evolutionarily, males may have had to confront a stressor either by overcoming or fleeing it, while women may have responded by nurturing offspring and affiliating with social groups that maximize the survival of the species....