Stress can make you anxious about harmless things: Study reveals how it alters fear memories
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Stress can make you anxious about harmless things: Study reveals how it alters fear memories

Hindustan Times  

Stress triggers the fight, flight or freeze response, as one undergoes extreme panic as they confront the distressing situation. Stress can generalize fear, making the brain perceive harmless things as threatening How stress skews memories The researchers examined mice to understand how stress affects memory formation. Generalisation of fear Too much stress makes even non-threatening situations appear scary. Much like how the mice generalized the sounds and couldn’t differentiate between the safe sound and the scary sound because their brains were overwhelmed, our memories too can become blurred under stress. Stress makes one anxious about things which might not even be harmful.

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Stress leads to needless anxiety - things you should know
4 months, 1 week ago

Stress leads to needless anxiety - things you should know

India Today  

Stress can disrupt how the brain forms memories, causing people to feel threatened even in safe situations, according to a new study. Researchers have found that stress makes clusters of neurons in the brain, called engrams, which grow larger, interfering with memory and amplifying fear. For instance, after burning a finger on a hot pan, someone under stress might start …

Frazzled due to stress? Study says it can alter your memories
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Frazzled due to stress? Study says it can alter your memories

Hindustan Times  

Stress can do more than just affecting our mood and ruining the day. A recent study led by Dr. Sheena Josselyn and Dr. Paul Frankland, The Hospital for Sick Children states that stress can alter the way the brain stores and processes memories. But when the brain is exposed to high amounts of stress, endocannabinoids can disturb the gatekeeping neurons, …

Why chronic stress makes you a poor decision maker
1 year, 9 months ago

Why chronic stress makes you a poor decision maker

Live Mint  

Stress has become an inherent part of the modern, fast-paced life and there’s no escaping it. Read on to better understand the relationship between stress and cognition, how chronic stress can impair our cognitive functions and learn strategies to mitigate its detrimental effects. Here are a few practical suggestions: Stress management techniques: Engaging in activities such as meditation, deep breathing …

How anxiety affects your focus
4 years, 9 months ago

How anxiety affects your focus

BBC  

How anxiety affects your focus Alamy A drawn-out stressful situation can make simple tasks feel more difficult than they used to be Feel like you can’t concentrate on anything at the moment? “I am incredibly busy,” one writer friend said recently, “doing nothing but dishes and taking walks.” Alamy A drawn-out stressful situation can make simple tasks feel more difficult …

Stress the silent killer
5 years, 8 months ago

Stress the silent killer

Deccan Chronicle  

Stress affects people of all age groups physically, emotionally and psychologically, leading medical experts to not only look at it in isolation, but as an important aspect in terms of identifying hypertension and diabetes. However, since the symptoms of stress vary widely from one person to another, it sometimes requires a team of specialists to identify and control the problem. …

Take a break! Because prolonged stress may cause memory loss
9 years ago

Take a break! Because prolonged stress may cause memory loss

Firstpost  

US researchers have found there is a relationship between prolonged stress and memory loss. New York: US researchers have found there is a relationship between prolonged stress and memory loss. The stress may include repeated, long-term mental assault such as being sustained by bullying victims, soldiers and those who report to beastly bosses, the researchers said. Further, the researchers found …

Chronic stress could lead to depression and dementia, scientists warn
9 years, 2 months ago

Chronic stress could lead to depression and dementia, scientists warn

The Independent  

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Don’t worry, be happy: Stress, anxiety could lead to dementia
9 years, 2 months ago

Don’t worry, be happy: Stress, anxiety could lead to dementia

Hindustan Times  

Here’s something so that you start taking stress more seriously. Experts say that chronic stress can wreak havoc on immune, metabolic and cardiovascular systems, and lead to atrophy of the brain’s hippocampus--crucial for long-term memory and spatial navigation. Chronic stress is a pathological state that is caused by prolonged activation of the normal acute physiological stress response, which can wreak …

How Stress Changes The Brain
10 years, 4 months ago

How Stress Changes The Brain

Huff Post  

We tend to think of stress as an immediate problem: The boss hovering over our desks; the mad dash to the subway at the end of a long day. Chronic stress can shrink your brain Stressful life events could harm your brain's memory and learning capacity by reducing the volume of gray matter in brain regions associated with emotions, self-control …

Could Stress Make Your Memory Worse?
13 years ago

Could Stress Make Your Memory Worse?

Huff Post  

A new study shows that stress may do more than make you frazzled -- it could actually affect memory, according to a new study in mice. Researchers from the State University of New York at Buffalo published a study in the journal Neuron showing that repeat exposure to stress in mice led to impairments in a part of the brain …

How the brain stores memories for specific fears
14 years, 11 months ago

How the brain stores memories for specific fears

The Hindu  

Neuroscientists are clueing into how the brain is capable of holding and retrieving memories for specific fears, revealing a more sophisticated storage and recall capacity than previously thought. The study may have implications for treating post-traumatic stress syndrome - as scientists begin to understand how different fears are stored in the brain, they can move toward addressing specific fear memories. …

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