Learning Quote by Robert Sapolsky

“stress weakens frontal connections with the hippocampus—essential for incorporating the new information that should prompt shifting to a new strategy—while strengthening frontal connections with…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

— Jennifer Collins

Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such…

— Siri Hustvedt

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

— Anonymous

While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

— David Perlmutter

“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

“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

Living in stressful situations there are chemicals in your brain that are released that essentially degrade the neuron connections that allow you to function…

— Chris Murphy

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

I don't know a great deal about Alzheimer's - just what it does.

— Valerie Harper

Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

— Richard Davidson

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

— Anonymous