Why do my children stress me out?
CrowdScience listener Leo gets stressed when his young children start screaming at the same time in the middle of the night. He wants to know why we haven\u2019t evolved to deal with the stress more effectively. The challenges of bringing up a family are nothing new and we don\u2019t face the same dangers as our ancestors, so why do we still react as if it\u2019s a life-threatening emergency? Caroline Steel finds out what stress is for, what it does to us and whether we have in fact evolved to manage it.
Contributors:
Tashfia Ahmed, biomedical engineer, post-doctoral researcher, City University, London \nAnne-Kathrin Gellner, neurologist and psychiatrist, Bonn University \nJames Rilling, anthropologist and neuroscientist, Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Emory University \nGunter Wagner, evolutionary biologist, Vienna University
Presenter: Caroline Steel \nProducer: Jo Glanville \nEditor: Richard Collings \nProduction Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris \nStudio Manager: Jackie Margerum
(Image: Frustrated father holds baby in his arms. Credit: Jamie Grill / Getty Images)