Posts tagged stress and the brain
When and How Stress Can Harm Your Brain
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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neuroscience, psychiatryFrancesco Amicostress and the brain, depression, anxiety disorder, learned helplessnessComment
Managing Emotions: The Anatomy of a Moment
Managing Emotions: The Anatomy of a Moment

This article explains why understanding our emotions is important, and how it can help us to manage stress. We give some quick tips on how to manage your emotions effectively, and explain why even learning to "name them to tame them" can make a really big difference to your brain and your experience.

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Michael KeaneActualise Clinicmanaging stress, stress management, stress and the brain, brain and stress, stress busting tips, tips for stress reduction, stress reduction, how stress works, my stressed brain, managing my emotions, emotion management, managing difficult emotions, how to manage emotions