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How stress affects your brain

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  • What can you personally do to relax and control stress?
    (Student’s own answer).
  • Why can stress make learning and remembering difficult?
    Because it weakens the hippocampus and reduces new brain cells.
  • Which brain part is called the fear center?
    The amygdala.
  • How does stress affect the prefrontal cortex?
    It shrinks and makes thinking decisions and social skills harder.
  • Why is too much stress harmful for the brain?
    It changes brain size structure and how it works.
  • What happens if there is too much cortisol for a long time?
    It wreaks havoc on the brain and makes learning harder.
  • What does epigenetic mean?
    A change in how genes work without changing DNA.
  • What did the experiment with rats and mothers show?
    Careful mothers made pups less sensitive to stress neglectful mothers made them more sensitive.
  • What does the hormone cortisol do?
    It primes your body for action during stress.
  • Which brain part helps us with memory and learning?
    The hippocampus.
  • What two activities can reduce stress?
    Exercise and meditation.
  • How can stress sometimes help?
    It gives a burst of energy and focus for sport or public speaking.
  • What does it mean to sleep restlessly?
    It means you cannot sleep well and keep moving in bed.
  • What happens to the hippocampus under strong stress?
    It deteriorates and weakens inhibition of stress.
  • What are signs that someone is stressed out?
    Feeling irritable, moody, forgetting things, and feeling overwhelmed.
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