[News] Stress strain on the brain can put health in peril

1 · · June 3, 2014, 8:47 p.m.
This article summarizes that what is stress and how the stress and brain is related. Stress can be divided into two parts. One is short-term stress and chronic stress. The short-term stress can be benefit for people but chronic stress can make the brain structure such as hippocampus or prefrontal cortex be shrink. These two brain regions function 1) the integration in learning and the memory(hippocampus) and  2) high-level thinking(prefrontal cortex). This article helps you understand stre...