Chronic stress can impair memory and cognitive function from "summary" of Mente afiada by Sanjay Gupta
Chronic stress is like a quiet thief in the night, slowly robbing us of our precious memories and cognitive abilities. When we are constantly under stress, our brains are flooded with cortisol, the stress hormone that can wreak havoc on our mental faculties.
As cortisol levels rise, our ability to concentrate and remember things may start to decline. It becomes harder to focus on tasks at hand, and our memory becomes foggy and unreliable. This can be particularly troubling as we age, when our cognitive function naturally begins to decline.
Studies have shown that chronic stress can actually shrink the hippocampus, ...
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