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Sustained stress erodes memory, and the immune system plays a key role in the cognitive impairment, according to a new study from researchers at The Ohio State University.
[...] "This is chronic stress. It's not just the stress of giving a talk or meeting someone new," said lead researcher Jonathan Godbout, associate professor of neuroscience at Ohio State.
This is the first study of its kind to establish the relationship between short-term memory and prolonged stress. In the case of the mice, that meant repeat visits from a larger, nasty intruder mouse.
Mice that were repeatedly exposed to the aggressive intruder had a hard time recalling where the escape hole was in a maze they'd mastered prior to the stressful period.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday January 11 2017, @01:51AM
About 12 years ago, my son who is autistic went through a bout of little sleep for around 3 months.
He would go to bed and get about 3-4 hours sleep every night. My wife and I got to the point where we didn't have a life and were stressed and sleep deprived 'to the max' (because he was a possible runner: he had no concept of personal safety, and could have left the house in the night and wandered). We'd take turns watching him while the other tried to sleep. He is also very loud and noisy, so sleeping is difficult while he is awake.
I used to be great at trivia games. Since that bout, my short and long term memory is poor ( but did recover a bit after a while of him settling down).
So that stress: yes, it fecked with MY memory.
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