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Decision-Making Under Conditions of Chronic Stress with Delia McCabe, PhD | Ep 6

No Way Out

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The Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Chronic Stress

The brain is choosing it because its capacity to connect is being limited. The neurons are not capable of connecting like they should. This all leads them to narrowing their focus to immediate, knee jerk habitual decisions and responses. So this is something you can't talk somebody out of. They are now stuck in the situation of having dendritic sprine reduction,. poor neuronal connectivity, high levels of cortisol.

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