Posts Tagged ‘general health’
- Stress and Anxiety: One of the Main Drains on our own Memories As we are under stress, the body excrete the bodily hormone cortisol. It's been shown in multiple studies that if we are placed directly under a lot of stress and cortisol is being quickly released throughout the system, there are usually memory lapses that correspond with these episodes. Cortisol has been shown to affect the neurotransmitters, which can be the direct cause of memory problems. Information conveyed to you when you are undergoing stressful conditions might not make it into either short term or long term memory. It has also been shown that while we are under stress the level of blood glucose, which is directly connected to our own energy levels, is diminished. Hence, the amount of energy that is needed to effectively save info into memory is lacking. After handling stress over a lengthy time period, your brain may actually lose the needed functioning for proper memory storage and retrieval.