Brain Chemical Messengers

Published By: teachhealth.com  On a typical day in the brain, trillions of messages are sent and received. The exciting discoveries began in the spring of 1977. Tools had been discovered. Tools that were enabling scientists to penetrate the very interior of single...

The Stress of Stress

Published on February 27, 2014 by Terri Cheney in The Bipolar Lens You don’t handle stress well? Fifteen years ago I was hospitalized for severe depression at UCLA.  I wasn’t very happy about it at the time—I didn’t like the people, didn’t like...

Renew – Stress on the Brain

Published By:  The Franklin Institute Online – fi.edu A chronic overreaction to stress overloads the brain with powerful hormones that are intended only for short-term duty in emergency situations. Those aggravating things that go wrong in the day and those...