Scientific American Frontiers . Worried Sick | PBS

The "flight or fright" response to stress once helped us evade predators, but its long term effects can get us into a different kind of trouble -- Ill health

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers

Worried Sick

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aired June 3, 2003

The Primates' Stress Club

To Heal or Not to Heal

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