Posts Tagged ‘burnout’
On World Health Day 2020, let’s discuss the stress response and the General Adaptation Syndrome (2/3)
_______ [Editor’s note: Continued from yesterday’s Exploring the human brain and how it responds to stress (1/3)] Stress was put on the map, so to speak, by a Hungarian — born Canadian endocrinologist named Hans Hugo Bruno Selye (ZEL — yeh) in 1950, when he presented his research on rats at the annual convention of…
Read MoreStudy: Strenuous physical exercise may lead to cognitive –not just physical– fatigue
__________ Too Much Exercise Can Tire Our Brains Out, Too (Discover Magazine D‑brief): “For years, the National Institute of Sports, Exercise and Performance (INSEP) in France had been studying an unusual phenomenon. If an athlete’s workout regiments were ramped up, it didn’t always lead to a better performance — even if that athlete felt like…
Read MoreUnder what conditions can mindfulness courses help health care workers manage stress and burnout?
Medical professionals are burdened daily with the pain and suffering of patients. Many work long hours, and regularly face stressful situations. This burden does not come without consequence: 60 percent of physicians report having experienced burnout at some point in their careers. Mindfulness courses designed to help health care workers
Read MoreStress and Neural Wreckage: Part of the Brain Plasticity Puzzle
Editor’s Note: Below you have a very insightful article on stress by Gregory Kellet, a researcher at UCSF. Enjoy! ———————————————- “My brain is fried, toast, frazzled, burnt out. How many times have you said or heard one version or another of these statements. Most of us think we are being figurative when we utter such phrases,…
Read MoreBrain Essay Contest for High School Students
The goal of this contest is to connect high-school students and teachers of biology and psychology with science and psychology bloggers. Students will need to answer in 400–800 words: Based on brain research, what is learning and how do we learn?. Submissions are due by May 10, 2007.
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