{"id":174636,"date":"2023-10-24T05:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/stress-amplifies-the-brains-ability-to-encode-memory-new-study-finds"},"modified":"2023-10-24T05:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:22:33","slug":"stress-amplifies-the-brains-ability-to-encode-memory-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/stress-amplifies-the-brains-ability-to-encode-memory-new-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Stress Amplifies the Brain\u2019s Ability to Encode Memory, New Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stress-amplifies-the-brains-ability-to-encode-memory-new-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stress may enhance the brain\u2019s ability to encode and store memory, a new Yale study finds.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Yale Department of Psychiatry\u2019s Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD, found study participants were more able to remember specific pairings of images after taking cortisol, a key stress hormone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discovered this pathway where cortisol is helping the hippocampus talk to itself, and that helps people remember emotional experiences better,\u201d Goldfarb says.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The hippocampus is a key brain region involved in encoding memory. Cortisol boosts connectivity in this region to enhance memory, according to Yale researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress may enhance the brain\u2019s ability to encode and store memory, a new Yale study finds. A team led by Yale Department of Psychiatry\u2019s Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD, found study participants were more able to remember specific pairings of images after taking cortisol, a key stress hormone. \u201cWe discovered this pathway where cortisol is helping the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}