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ICYMI: Stress Doesn't Just Make You Forget. It Changes How You Remember.
A new study on stress and memory just landed — and it reframes what's actually happening in your brain when you blank at the worst possible time.
The research shows that acute stress doesn't just make recall harder. It limits how the brain forms associations between new memories as they're being built. Dr. Samantha Yammine uses a sharp example: if a friend tells you they'll be wearing a bright red jacket and later you spot that jacket outside the library, your unstressed brain connects the dots. Under stress, that link doesn't form the same way. The hippocampus keeps things separate…
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