LISTENING: HOW STRESS AFFECTS YOUR BRAIN

1. How can stress be helpful to us?

2. When does stress start to change your brain?

3. How can arguments affect your brain?

4. When is your HPA (hypothalamus pituitary adrenal) axis activated?

5. Can high levels of cortisol over long periods of time have a negative effect

on your brain?

6. What is the hippocampus associated with?

7. Can cortisol decrease the size of your brain?

8. How can chronic stress affect your memory?

9. When a baby rat had been nurtured by its mother, was it able to cope with

stress better later in life?

10. How can you reverse the negative effects of cortisol?

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyPuH9o-
jCE&t=32s