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Social stress adversely affects hippocampus - elte - Dec 4, 2015

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-social-stress-messes-hippocampus.htm .  
Quote:  One of the most vulnerable structures of the brain is the hippocampus, a brain region greatly involved in learning and memory functions.  


RE: Social stress adversely affects hippocampus - C C - Dec 4, 2015

(Dec 4, 2015 01:26 AM)elte Wrote: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-social-stress-messes-hippocampus.html


"This strangest of all animals to ever abide on Earth, in that a sequence of marks on a piece of paper [bad news] can evoke traumatic reactions in its body, as if stricken by illness from an airborne agency. The illiterate crow perched above, immune to this likewise new and bizarre force or infection mediated by signs, can only look on in puzzled wonder at its handiwork." --K.G. Dappler

RE: Social stress adversely affects hippocampus - elte - Feb 5, 2016

Now another whammy. Recent research has some brain-related bad news for civilization.  It's related to how the hippocampus' growth is stimulated by aggression.  Nature is so tyrannous; evolution is so cruel.

Another thing seems to fit with my personal observation.  If I feel less sad I tend to feel more anxious.  

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-02-aggression-nerve-cells-brain.html

RE: Social stress adversely affects hippocampus - C C - Feb 5, 2016

Maybe violent computer games could serve a useful purpose after all, in providing a virtual, non-real outlet for aggression-based stimulation. But for me, Daesh is a counterexample of their negative consequences. Due to their barbarism and anachronistic obsession with fighting for a Caliph to establish an ever-expanding "kingdom", I can easily imagine most ISIS recruits being former Heroic fantasy war-game players.

RE: Social stress adversely affects hippocampus - Magical Realist - Feb 6, 2016

Quote:"This strangest of all animals to ever abide on Earth, in that a sequence of marks on a piece of paper [bad news] can evoke traumatic reactions in its body, as if stricken by illness from an airborne agency. The illiterate crow perched above, immune to this likewise new and bizarre force or infection mediated by signs, can only look on in puzzled wonder at its handiwork." --K.G. Dappler


There's really only one colorful semantic structure that sends my mind reeling into an anxious "WTF?" stress mode feverishly hallucinating all sorts of end-of-world scenarios:


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