#1: Stress

Jim interviews Kim about the phenomenon of stress. What are the neural correlates of stress? Are there gender differences in levels of stress? What steps can people take to reduce the impact of stress in their own lives? Discover the answers to these questions and more in this episode of Minding the Brain!

Explore further:

Deciding advantageously before knowing the advantageous strategy:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9036851

Steve Ballmer and firing the worst employees:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer

Stress in humans compared to primates:
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/march7/sapolskysr-030707.html

1 Comment

  1. Thank you for a great podcast. I wonder if (probably a matter of when rather than if) we as specie would at some point evolve in away to mitigate ongoing subtle chronic stress. (ie. HPA axis and cortisol negative feed back cycle would some how change to mitigate possible damage to hippocampal regions due to persistently elevated cortisol levels)
    Can totally relate to the school calling about kids throwing up 🙂

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