Archive for October 24th, 2012

Stress Can Cause Disruption to your Working Memory

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

Stressed people tend to be inattentive and confused at times. This confusion may be due to the disruptive effects of stress on the processing of short term (working) memory. Without short term memory you would be unable to remember the first paragraph of this article when you got to the second paragraph. The prefrontal cortex [...]