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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

12 Benefits of Learning a Foreign Language

EE Edit@rs · September 28, 2013 · 6 Comments

One strives to learn a foreign language for a variety of reasons. A teacher in a multilingual school has to have the ability to reach out to students of different cultures. Migrants lessen the impact of adjustment if they have made an effort to learn the language of their new … [Read more...] about 12 Benefits of Learning a Foreign Language

Filed Under: Education and Learning, Personal Development Tagged With: alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, cognitive skills, dementia, foreign language, learning, mental illness

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