Holiday chaos can impact your memory and focus for the short term and the long term. Physical alterations in your body caused by stress can affect your brain function and structure. Helpful strategies ...

Inducing acute stress reliably under controlled conditions remains a major challenge in scientific research. Finding paradigms that elicit stress reliably and remain ecologically valid is difficult.

Amy Knight, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology, discusses why and how chronic stress can affect one’s brain and overall health. What is ...

It is well known that intentional use of mnemonics can improve the formation and recall of memory. Intentional memory control is assumed to help us to remember valued memories while suppressing ...

Acute stress represents a short-term, physiological and psychological response to challenging or threatening stimuli, and it can markedly influence memory performance. Under conditions of stress, the ...