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15. How stress damages the brain and impairs decision making

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Welcome to today’s episode, where we talk about how the brain changes in response to uncontrolled stress. The information from this podcast comes from a beautiful review published by Amy Arnsten in Nature Review Neuroscience n 2009, titled “Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function”

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