
Focus - When We're Stressed
How We're Wired
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The Effects of Stress on the Prefrontal Cortex
From rodent models, it can take as little as two weeks of repeated stress to start seeing those changes in the prefrontal cortex. For Kira, she took six months off work to recuperate and then spent time in a smaller company in a more relaxed role before ultimately taking another job at another big tech company. "I very quickly after taking that role started to feel the same sometimes again, only far worse this time"
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