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Spurts of acute stress (known as "eustress" in research, if you like learning new words) can increase your memory, concentration and more. Learning to embrace stress is beneficial, so start by watching this video. If you're actually reading this, you REALLY care about good stress 👏 and there is further reading below.
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REFERENCES 📚
Abercrombie, H. C., Kalin, N. H., Thurow, M. E., Rosenkranz, M. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2003). Cortisol variation in humans affects memory for emotionally laden and neutral information. Behavioral Neuroscience, 117(3), 505-516.
dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.117.3.505
Dawans, B.V., Ditzen, B., Trueg, A., Fischbacher, U., & Heinrichs, M. (2019). Effects of acute stress on social behavior in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 99, 137-144.
Seery, M., Leo, R.J., Lupien, S.P., Kondrak, C.L., & Almonte, J.L. (2013). An upside to adversity?: moderate cumulative lifetime adversity is associated with resilient responses in the face of controlled stressors. Psychological science, 24 7, 1181-9 .
Park, Daeun & Yu, Alisa & Metz, Sarah & Tsukayama, Eli & Crum, Alia & Duckworth, Angela. (2017). Beliefs About Stress Attenuate the Relation Among Adverse Life Events, Perceived Distress, and Self‐Control. Child Development. 89. 10.1111/cdev.12946.
Jamieson, Jeremy & Nock, Matthew & Mendes, Wendy. (2011). Mind Over Matter: Reappraising Arousal Improves Cardiovascular and Cognitive Responses to Stress. Journal of experimental psychology. General. 141. 417-22. 10.1037/a0025719.
Steptoe A, Kivimäki M. Stress and cardiovascular disease. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2012 Apr 3;9(6):360–70. doi: 10.1038/nrcardio.2012.45.
Yang, L., Zhao, Y., Wang, Y., Liu, L., Zhang, X., Li, B., & Cui, R. (2015). The Effects of Psychological Stress on Depression. Current neuropharmacology, 13(4), 494–504. doi:10.2174/1570159X1304150831150507
Scott, K. A., Melhorn, S. J., & Sakai, R. R. (2012). Effects of Chronic Social Stress on Obesity. Current obesity reports, 1(1), 16–25. doi:10.1007/s13679-011-0006-3
MY PATREON: patreon.com/BrainCraft
And please consider SUBSCRIBING to BrainCraft ow.ly/rt5IE (and ring that bell 🧠)
Spurts of acute stress (known as "eustress" in research, if you like learning new words) can increase your memory, concentration and more. Learning to embrace stress is beneficial, so start by watching this video. If you're actually reading this, you REALLY care about good stress 👏 and there is further reading below.
My Instagram instagram.com/nessyhill | Twitter twitter.com/nessyhill
Music by Epidemic Sound: epidemicsound.com/creator
REFERENCES 📚
Abercrombie, H. C., Kalin, N. H., Thurow, M. E., Rosenkranz, M. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2003). Cortisol variation in humans affects memory for emotionally laden and neutral information. Behavioral Neuroscience, 117(3), 505-516.
dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.117.3.505
Dawans, B.V., Ditzen, B., Trueg, A., Fischbacher, U., & Heinrichs, M. (2019). Effects of acute stress on social behavior in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 99, 137-144.
Seery, M., Leo, R.J., Lupien, S.P., Kondrak, C.L., & Almonte, J.L. (2013). An upside to adversity?: moderate cumulative lifetime adversity is associated with resilient responses in the face of controlled stressors. Psychological science, 24 7, 1181-9 .
Park, Daeun & Yu, Alisa & Metz, Sarah & Tsukayama, Eli & Crum, Alia & Duckworth, Angela. (2017). Beliefs About Stress Attenuate the Relation Among Adverse Life Events, Perceived Distress, and Self‐Control. Child Development. 89. 10.1111/cdev.12946.
Jamieson, Jeremy & Nock, Matthew & Mendes, Wendy. (2011). Mind Over Matter: Reappraising Arousal Improves Cardiovascular and Cognitive Responses to Stress. Journal of experimental psychology. General. 141. 417-22. 10.1037/a0025719.
Steptoe A, Kivimäki M. Stress and cardiovascular disease. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2012 Apr 3;9(6):360–70. doi: 10.1038/nrcardio.2012.45.
Yang, L., Zhao, Y., Wang, Y., Liu, L., Zhang, X., Li, B., & Cui, R. (2015). The Effects of Psychological Stress on Depression. Current neuropharmacology, 13(4), 494–504. doi:10.2174/1570159X1304150831150507
Scott, K. A., Melhorn, S. J., & Sakai, R. R. (2012). Effects of Chronic Social Stress on Obesity. Current obesity reports, 1(1), 16–25. doi:10.1007/s13679-011-0006-3
