Topics: Articles, Family & Children, Mental/Emotional Health, Workplace Stress
Stress Causes Memory Loss (and other stress-related news)
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Scientists have discovered that if they play very irritating hissing noises to mice, the mice are then likely to forget where they can swim to safety while struggling to stay afloat in buckets of water … according to a story published on the science blog ScienCentralNews.
The story, titled “Stress and Memory,” summarizes the results of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online that shows how stress chemically alters the brain’s capacity to retain information, even very important information like where one can safely get one’s head above water when dropped unexpectedly into a lake or pond. That’s the effect on mice, anyway.
In other stress-related news:
- The Associated Press reports that college students practice primal screams and nude group-runs in order to relieve the stress of finals in “Students De-Stress During Finals.”
- OHS Canada reports that a new study called Staying@Work reports that stress at work is costing Canadian employers millions due to long- and short-term disability claims, the leading causes of which are related to mental health problems. See “Workers’ Mental Health and Stress Affecting Business Results in Canada.”
- The NW Evening Mail reports that hospitals may experiment with a new line of anti-bacterial stress balls to help combat infections: “Stress Buster.”
- LondonLaunch.com reports that three quarters of British mums surveyed feel stressed out by planning their childrens’ birthday parties: “Kids Parties Stress Mums Out - Survey Finds“
