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There are many types and degrees of stress and different kinds of memory, but we’re going to focus on how short-term stress impacts your memory for facts.

So how does stress affect each of these stages?

In the first two stages, moderate stress can actually help experiences enter your memory.

Meanwhile, the flood of corticosteroids from stress stimulates your hippocampus, also prompting memory consolidation.

But even though some stress can be helpful, extreme and chronic stress can have the opposite effect.

Researchers have tested this by injecting rats directly with stress hormones.

In humans, we see a similar positive effect with moderate stress.

But that only appears when the stress is related to the memory task— so while time pressure might help you memorize a list, having a friend scare you will not.

And the weeks, months, or even years of sustained corticosteroids that result from chronic stress can damage the hippocampus and decrease your ability to form new memories.

It would be nice if some stress also helped us remember facts, but unfortunately, the opposite is true.

So what can you do to turn stress to your advantage and stay calm and collected when it matters the most?

Completing practice questions under time pressure, or seated at a desk rather than on a couch, can make your stress response to these circumstances less sensitive during the test itself.

So, collectively, now we think we have enough evidence to say that neurogenesis is a target of choice if we want to improve memory formation or mood, or even prevent the decline associated with aging, or associated with stress.

How about stress?

Yes, stress will decrease the production of new neurons in the hippocampus.

Now, I'm a neuroscientist by training and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress.

Remember, when you're under stress, the brain releases cortisol.

So part of the practice of the pre-mortem is to recognize that under stress you're not going to be at your best, and you should put systems in place.

Remember under stress you're not thinking clearly.

Remember, our brain under stress releases cortisol, and one of the things that happens at that moment is a whole bunch on systems shut down.

Unfortunately, one of the things that goes out the window during those times of stress is rational, logical thinking, as Danny Kahneman and his colleagues have shown.

He stumbled out of class in a daze, and ran straight into his all-time crush, spiking up his stress.

In primitive caveman terms, stress can make you fight for your life, or run for your life, if, for example, you're confronted by a hungry saber-tooth tiger.

Special chemicals called stress hormones run through your body, giving you more oxygen and power to run away from danger or to face it and fight for your life, hence the term "fight or flight."

When we're taking final exams, sitting in traffic or pondering pollution, we internalize stress.

This triggers the pituitary gland, a pea-sized gland found at the base of the brain, to release adrenocorticotropic hormone which then stimulates the adrenal gland sitting on top of the kidneys to release cortisol, the major stress hormone.

These natural chemicals are a great help when you need to run away quickly, or do superhuman feats of courage, but when you're simply sitting, these stress hormones collect in the body and affect your overall health.

Cortisol is a major stress hormone involved in making skin cells churn out oily lipids from special glands called sebaceous glands.

So, his already oily skin, together with a boost in oil and inflammation from stress, is the perfect environment for bacteria to swell, swell, swell up into a major zit.

But some studies have also found that emotional tears contain higher levels of stress hormones, such as ACTH and enkephalin, an endorphin and natural pain killer.

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