Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Short-term stress can affect learning and memory

Short-term stress lasting as little as a few hours can impair brain-cell communication in areas associated with learning and memory, University of California, Irvine researchers have found. It has been known that severe stress lasting weeks or months can impair cell communication in the brain’s learning and memory region, but this study provides the first evidence that short-term stress has the same effect.

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Posted by Tom Beckman on 03/12 at 11:24 PM
Brain • Education • Productivity/Performance • (0) Comments • Permalink
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