The same area of the brain is activated in times of stress and in times of fear.
Findings of this research suggest that stress is not merely a psychological state experienced by the brain, rather the immune system plays a role in communicating with the brain and supporting us in times of stress.
One hypothesis holds that PTSD stems from a memory that is too strong, burned into the brain by hormones released in times of stress.
"Seafood diet behind big brains" is the headline in Times of India, June 11 , 2010 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5998115.cms) reporting on a study published in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences PNASS) for June 1 , 2010 vol. 1017, no.
Butturini tells her story through the lens of food — its restorative powers and its capacity to trigger the brain to remember and hope in times of tragedy and challenge: "And like a potter centering clay on a spinning potter's wheel, the mere act of cooking centered me," Butturini writes in "Keeping the Feast," her blunt and brave memoir.
Prior to childbirth, every father has a neural chip implanted in his brain that makes them act in times of crisis: reading the minds of every family member, simply knowing when something harmful is taking place, or simply foregoing one's professional dreams out of deference to cultural pressure that asserts their whole value is placed in how well they care for smaller human beings.
Characterize microglia with age to assess whether microglia are harmful or beneficial in times of brain stress, injury and inflammation in the context of aging.
Your brain is wired to protect your assets in times of trouble.
This means that, as we learn to engage our thinking and social prefrontal cortex in times of stress, our brain re-wires itself over time to be more naturally compassionate and social, and less driven by our "carnal" reactive emotions.
These memories are vital to maintaining the ownership of a brain in a time of social, psychic, viral plague.
