Stress Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

“how acute stress strengthens connectivity between the frontal cortex and motoric areas, while weakening frontal-hippocampal connections; the result is decision making that is habitual,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“During sustained stress, the amygdala processes emotional sensory information more rapidly and less accurately, dominates hippocampal function, and disrupts frontocortical function; we’re more fearful,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“new study has shown that routine daily stress shuts down the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for decision making, correcting errors,…

— Rudolph E. Tanzi

“This brings up a key concept, namely the inverted U. The complete absence of stress is aversively boring. Moderate, transient stress is wonderful—various aspects…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Moderate, transient stress (i.e., the good, stimulatory stress) promotes hippocampal LTP, while prolonged stress disrupts it and promotes LTD—one reason why cognition tanks at…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse…

— Anonymous

Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would…

— Noreena Hertz

“Sustained stress has numerous adverse effects. The amygdala becomes overactive and more coupled to pathways of habitual behavior; it is easier to learn fear…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Chronic stress rewires your brain for self-protection, not self-production.”

— Felecia Etienne

“Stress is a disease that can deteriorate the brain. Cure; Read, Garden, Swim.”

— Jennifer Collins

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them…

— Anonymous