UC Irvine study provides first evidence that acute stress impacts brain-cell communication involved with memory formation

Short-term stress lasting as little as a few hours can impair brain-cell communication in areas associated with learning and memory, University of California, Irvine researchers have found.

It has been known that severe stress lasting weeks or months can impair cell communication in the brain’s learning and memory region, but this study provides the first evidence that short-term stress has the same effect. The study appears in the March 12 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience. [continue reading…]