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Stress Affects Your Brain in 5 Surprising Ways

Stress is an all-too-familiar component of modern life.
Stress affects itself in a variety of ways on a daily basis. It could be the pressure of juggling family, career, and school obligations.
It can be about your health, your income, or personal relationships.

You've probably heard about the negative effects of stress on the mind and body. What you may not realise is that stress has a major impact on your brain.
In the face of stress, your brain goes through a series of reactions-some good and some bad-designed to mobilize and protect itself from potential threats.
Stress has now been found to have a wide range of harmful effects on the brain, ranging from contributing to mental disease to shortening the brain's volume.
Let's take a deeper look at five of the most surprising effects of stress on the brain.


1. Chronic stress is linked to a higher risk of mental illness, as well as mood and anxiety disorders, later in life.

2. A stressful event could harm new neurons in the hippocampus of the brain ( region of memory).
3. The overproduction of myelin observed by the scientists as a result of the long stress can result in long-term structural changes in the brain.

4. Stress can cause brain shrinkage in areas related with emotion control, metabolism, and memory.

5. Stress wreaks havoc on your memory
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