{"id":233271,"date":"2026-03-13T22:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/stress-rewires-brain-control-networks-boosting-pain-tolerance-in-ice-test"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:15:37","slug":"stress-rewires-brain-control-networks-boosting-pain-tolerance-in-ice-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/stress-rewires-brain-control-networks-boosting-pain-tolerance-in-ice-test","title":{"rendered":"Stress rewires brain control networks, boosting pain tolerance in ice test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stress-rewires-brain-control-networks-boosting-pain-tolerance-in-ice-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stress resilience isn\u2019t a flatline. It\u2019s a flex, according to new research from Florida International University. Marcelo Bigliassi, assistant professor of psychophysiology, and Ph.D. student Dayanne Antonio thrive in creating stressful environments.<\/p>\n<p>They set out to explore how the brain\u2019s internal wiring and a person\u2019s subjective experience of stress interact to determine how they respond to stressful situations. <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.physiology.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1152\/japplphysiol.01016.2025\" target=\"_blank\">The findings were published<\/a> in the Journal of Applied Physiology.<\/p>\n<p>Study participants plunged one hand into a bucket of ice-cold water. Frigidly cold water. As the seconds ticked by, the body\u2019s stress systems revved up, and their skin began to sweat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress resilience isn\u2019t a flatline. It\u2019s a flex, according to new research from Florida International University. Marcelo Bigliassi, assistant professor of psychophysiology, and Ph.D. student Dayanne Antonio thrive in creating stressful environments. They set out to explore how the brain\u2019s internal wiring and a person\u2019s subjective experience of stress interact to determine how they respond [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}