How Do Stressful Situations Create Stressful Memories?
Humans obviously experience stress, so obviously scientists have studied how being stressed impacts our brains. They have found that stress results in hormone r...
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Anxiety- Survival Mechanism Gone Wrong
Anxiety through history The term anxiety has an ever changing image, and as time rolls on so does our opinion and understanding of the term. Originally anxiety ...
Bringing Together Memories under Pressure
Can you remember the last time you were in a high stress situation? Perhaps it was before a major test, or the last time you had to speak in publi...
Fighting the Memory War: A Battle Between Remembering and Forgetting Trauma
“Do you remember what happened?” is generally one of the first questions a person is asked after going through a traumatic event. This question can cause a grea...
PTSD and Its Effect on Making Memories
I was four years old when I remember standing on the upstairs landing of my childhood home staring down at two strange men. With my stuffed bunny in hand, I fra...
Once Hungry, Forever Eating: The Neurological Impacts of Poor Diet on Obesity
The Obesity Problem According to the CDC, more than 1/3 of adults in the U.S. are obese. Why is this a problem? Why is obesity rising? Could we blame it on Amer...
How Stressful Memories Contribute to Anxiety
Think back to your most vivid memory. I would guess you can remember just about every detail about that situation. What time of day it was, where you were, what...
School Test = Bear Attack
We are living in a higher state of anxiety than we were biologically made for. Our brains were made for us to remember stressful situations that would help us t...
New form of Stress Relief
Living in a society where the work days are getting longer and the nights of rest are getting shorter, the general population is living at the highest level of ...
How Stress Can Lead to Obesity
We’ve all heard that stress can lead to weight gain, but how does it really do that? Chronic stress causes many harmful cycles that can lead to this excess weig...