Outside the brain, stress can wreak havoc on the immune system, according to another study to be presented at the meeting.
Sports car maker Ferrari SpA, for one, has filed a patent application that indicates the company is evaluating technology that would embed wireless electrodes in a car seat's headrest to monitor drivers' brain waves for stress as they pilot machines capable of roaring up to 200 miles per hour.
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Studies have shown, for example, that the brain learns best when stress hormones are mildly elevated.
Animal studies have shown that stress damages brain cells to the point where it can inhibit neurogenesis (the growth of new brain cells).
The Army, for instance, introduced new screening and treatment for post-traumatic stress and brain injuries, in response to a suicide rate that began rising in 2005.
Both findings, Dr. Roses argues, suggest that people born with an E-4 gene suffer more from poor "housekeeping" than other people and thus are less able to stand the stress of brain injury, whether from an accident or a hemorrhage.
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We're improving care for our wounded warriors, especially those with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries.
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We have seen a growing number of veterans returning with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury.
Medical schools have committed to educate their students about post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries.
This puts oxidative stress on the brain and risks undoing all the good work those antioxidants have been up to.
Last year's budget also included money to improve care and treatment for our wounded warriors, especially those with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury.
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After all, as Thorin Klosowki recently wrote for Lifehacker, there have been studies showing that meditation can improve focus and productivity, increase overall brain power, and decrease stress and anxiety.
The leading nursing schools and nursing organizations have committed to educate current and future nurses on how to recognize and treat post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, depression and other combat-related issues.
Hanson has been examining the impact of stress on the brain and well-being, while working in the trenches in corporate America and as the co-founder of The Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom.
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And most of all, for our veterans it will mean better access to the doctors and nurses and the medical care that they need: specialized care for our wounded warriors with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries, and the staffing to welcome back to the VA those half-million "Priority 8" vets.
In our first year alone, more than 1, 600 businesses hired more than 60, 000 veterans, and they pledged to hire at least 170, 000 more in the coming years. (Applause.) National associations of doctors and nurses representing millions of health professionals are working to improve treatment for post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries.
The Swedish study builds off the established idea in the field that stress actually harms the brain.
New research is providing insight into how stress can shrink your brain cells and prematurely age your immune system.
He was also diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress.
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We dramatically increased funding for veterans health care: more care for women's veterans, for our wounded warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, traumatic brain injuries.
We don't know what will happen to funding for the programs designed to tackle this war's ugly twins, post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, not to mention the rising suicide epidemic among veterans and military family members.
This follows the same logic as beta blocker use: Alcohol blocks stress pathways in the brain (which is why it relaxes people), so people who were drunk were in a condition in which the terrible event couldn't register fully in the brain in a way that would lead to PTSD.
If we think that we have to take care of our veterans when they come home -- and not just salute on Memorial Day but we actually have to work with folks who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Traumatic Brain Injury -- well, that requires services that are very labor-intensive and expensive.
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Dr. Rajita Sinha, director of the Yale Stress Center, told me last year that stressful experiences can effectively rewire the brain to respond to hardship by becoming more sensitized to stress.
"Stress hormones act on the brain to remodel it and change it, " McEwen said.
The stress hormone cortisol shrinks the brain's memory centers and can hamper one's ability to learn and recall.
This constant stress hyperdrive continually signals the brain that the world is dangerous, and after a while, the brain completely believes it.
Interestingly, the study also found that if a compound is given which blocks a step in the stress cascade, the same brain changes do not occur, which could suggest a future drug target.
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Bales' attorneys have said that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and sustained a traumatic brain injury during a prior deployment to Iraq.
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