May 4, 2006
I really did not know the damaging effects that chronic stress can have on your whole body. The substrates are present and very active. SUSTAIN stress can damage your hippocampus both anatomically and functionally. I intend to really go into some depth on the efficacy of stress both good and bad in the next few weeks. I sure would like a lot of opinions and feed back on this one since prolonged chronic stress can damage or obviate neurogenesis in the hippocampus. I will discuss top professionals in this field and have this week been discussing this with top scientists and physicians in Cambridge, Mass.
Please be patient since I am travelling quite a bit and not use to my laptop. Very big change for my habits. I will leave you with one URL retrieved this week and it can be reached by hyperlink. Please know that this is an important step for the neuroscience teaching -practitioner.
The NSTP (neuroscience teaching-practitioner) can be defined as a professional neuroscientist who is an excellent educator and teacher or....an excellent educator and teacher with the requisite neuroscience skills).
URL:
http://web.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=br...ssHormones
Let us begin......URL:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/22/12320
Best,
Rob
NSTP
May 9, 2006
Good Morning,
We have very much under rated
stress on the human condition. Studies out today show that the continued or chronic stress when taking a test or while studying for a test can release cortisol into the blood stream and decrease your ability to retrieve memory when called upon to do so. It seems that when encoding and consolidating memory for long term use, your stress free or almost stress free exogenous and endogenous environment play a very large role in being able to hardwire and form long term memories ......especially the ability to retrieve those memories. This is just the tip of the iceberg...Retrieved from internet today....URL:
http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/ar.../stress_3/
Be well,
Rob
May 19, 2006
Good Morning
Stress is real and teacher, educators and parents have not been looking at it as a real potential problem especially when the stress is heavy over a long period of time....[chronic].
Please take the time to read this interesting url about allostasis and allostatic load. You will be pleased that you did....this is the prior learning phase for most of us regarding stress....Retrieved today on the internet.
Best,
Rob URL:
http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/Research/Allo...tatic.html
June 3, 2006
Good Morning
I am doing a great deal of research on movement disorders and the disintegration of neurons etc. While looking at all of the obvious things that affect diseases such as Parkinsons, I ran across a great deal of information regarding the potential....of dopaminergic cell death in the substantia nigra pars compacta by of all things STRESS. Of course stress in full form is biological agent that affects movement systems in the brain....eg. Basal Ganglia....
You can use the internet and go on and on and on.......unpealing the onion of movement disorders via many means....but STRESS? Retrieved today URL:
http://www.reutershealth.com/wellconnected/doc31.html
Best,
Rob
June 4, 2006
Good Afternoon
Many of today's drugs and remedies for illness have been discovered by chance. Even though there has been a great deal of information regarding the deleterious nature of chonic stress, it has in my opinion the term "stress" has become a macho term for "meet stress head on" and you will over come it. The work force has become a place of "non spoken war of competition for both sexes." ...and if we look closely illness has increased in those who are not handling stress very well.
If we were to change the name of chronic stress to "something" that did not seem historically so common and learn what we know about this serious invader now; maybe we would react.
We suppress our human immune system with chronic stress and while enhancing our image of facing stressors head on....we run out of stress responsors. We must retool our lives to handle stress in a more efficacious manner than has been done so in the past. Serious diseases are causal sources of chronic stress. Our reaction to chronic stress or stress in general may be the 'silver bullet' to healing thyself. Teachers really need to become aware of this......
Best,
Rob
stress was gud for me coz then I started to b responsible!!
June 8, 2006
Good morning,
I have always wondered why people who have
movement disorders [usually serious] need and tolerate far less stress than the avereage human...well now I guess that I know. Movement disorders involve a great deal of the mid brain and basal ganglia, substantia nigra etc. These areas are very sensitive to neuron irregularities and sometime cell death. Many types of movements depend upon dopaminergic neurons and others that don't need extra stressors disrupting the allostatic load of the body with stressors and hormonal anti-stressors going after each other over long periods of time. Enough is enough....Caretakers and those teachers who know of children and older students with moverment disorders need to be aware of this.
Best,
Rob
tearszsz Wrote:stress was gud for me coz then I started to b responsible!!
June 12, 2006
Good Morning Tearszsz
You are correct. Stress can be good for you if moderate to light and does not become chronic. Tearszsz, please tell me how your stress was good for you and you started to be responsible!
Be well,
Rob
June 13, 2006
Good Morning
Robert M. Sapolsky, author of
Why zebras don't get ulcers says about stress....
CHONIC STRESS AND CARDIOVASULAR DISEASE " Never is the maladaptiveness of stress-response during psychological stress clearer than in the case of the cardiovascular system"......and " The first step in the road to stress-related disease is developing hypertension, chronically elevated blood pressure. This one seems obvious: if stress causes your blood pressure to go up, then chronic stress causes your blood pressure to go up chronically. Task completed , you've got hypertension."
Dr. Sapolsky can really keep the attention of the reader....he is terrific...Stanford Professor.
Best,
Rob