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When and How Stress Can Harm Your Brain

How we cope with stress has a major effect on the quality of our life and our health. While our physiology is altered in response to acute stressful situations, under excessive, continued and/or inescapable stress, return to normal health conditions can be problematic. Especially in vulnerable individuals, chronic stress can induce pathophysiological alterations in the normal stress-sensitive neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, immune and neural systems.

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