Last year I posted about the powerfully negative effects chronic stress has on your memory and brain. Now, a new study [Reference below] published in the June 12, 2007 journal of Neurology provides further evidence this is true by showing:
People who are chronically distressed are 40 percent more likely to develop Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) - a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia syndromes.
A study conducted by researchers out of Stanford University Medical Center in California indicates that children who are exposed to severe stress (i.e., physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, witnessing violence or experiencing lasting separation and loss) are more likely to have a shrunken hippocampus.
As pointed out in previous posts, the hippocampus is the “memory engine” of the brain. A weak hippocampus means poor memory ability.
