Education @ New York Times

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 9, 2008

If you are inter­est­ed in edu­ca­tion reform, social entre­pre­neur­ship and ven­ture phil­antropy, grab a nice cap of tea or cof­fee and enjoy today’s spec­tac­u­lar edi­tion of the New York Times Mag­a­zine. Must read: insight­ful expert dis­cus­sion on How Many Bil­lion­aires Does It Take to Fix a School Sys­tem? Also: excel­lent pieces titled Self-Made Phil­an­thropists, on…

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Stress and Short Term Memory

By Caroline Latham | June 4, 2007 |

We all know chron­ic stress is bad for our heart, our weight, and our mood, but how about our memory?Interestingly, acute stress can help you focus and remem­ber things more vividly.Chronic stress, on the oth­er hand, reduces your abil­i­ty to focus and can specif­i­cal­ly dam­age cells in the hip­pocam­pus, a brain struc­ture crit­i­cal to encod­ing short term memory.When is stress chron­ic? When you feel out of con­trol of your life. You may feel irri­ta­ble or anx­ious. While every indi­vid­ual varies in their response the type and quan­ti­ty of stress, there are some things you can do to feel more in con­trol of your envi­ron­ment. This sense of empow­er­ment can low­er your stress, and as a result, help your memory.

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