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These stress-signaling pathways get released and they rapidly impair the higher cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex that includes things like working memory, with chronic stress, you actually lose gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, in sadly the exact regions that are involved with inhibiting the stress response and those areas that give you insight that you’re needing help.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am not a bad person -- this is just how the brain changes with chronic stress. It's doing it to try to protect me, even though in this situation, it's making it worse, having that kind of insight and perspective can break the vicious cycle where you're blaming yourself for not being better.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
One of the most striking( effects) is thinning of the gray matter of an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, it helps us to act appropriately. It gives us insight about ourselves and others. It gives us perspective. It allows us to do complex decision-making and to be able to have thoughtful, abstract reasoning rather than concrete or habitual responses.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's a double whammy. At the same time the prefrontal cortex is getting weaker and more primitive, the brain circuits that generate emotion like fear are getting stronger, you start seeing the world as harmful even when it's not.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
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