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New Findings on How Chronic Stress Can Cause Mental Illnesses

EE Edit@rs · February 26, 2014 · Leave a Comment

This blog has written numerous times about the importance of acute stress for increased mental performance (such as here, here, and here).  But once stress becomes long-term and chronic, it becomes a hindrance.  But more than that, it can lead to mental illness.  Scientists have … [Read more...] about New Findings on How Chronic Stress Can Cause Mental Illnesses

Filed Under: Studies and News Tagged With: amygdala, chronic stress, gray matter, hippocampus, mental illness, myelin, stress, white matter

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