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Some of the most important decisions you will make ∈ your lifetime will occur while you feel stressed and anxious.
From medical decisions to financial and professional ones, we are often required to weigh up information under stressful conditions. Take for example expectant parents who need to make a series of important choices during pregnancy and labour – when many feel stressed. Do we become better or worse at processing and using information under such circumstances?
My colleague Neil Garrett, now at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute ∈New Jersey, and I ventured from the safety of our lab to fire stations ∈ the state of Colorado to investigate how the mind operates under high stress.
...When you experience stressful events, whether personal (waiting for a medical diagnosis) or public (political turmoil), a physiological change is triggered that can cause you to take ∈ any sort of warning and become fixated on what might go wrong. A study using brain imaging to look at the neural activity of people under stress revealed that this ‘switch’ was related to a sudden boost ∈a neural signal important for learning(known as a prediction error), specifically ∈ response to unexpected signs of danger (such as faces expressing fear). This signal relies on dopamine – a neurotransmitter found ∈ the brain – and, under stress, dopamine function is altered by another molecule called corticotropin-releasing factor.
...The fact that stress increases the likelihood that we will focus more on alarming messages, together with the fact that it spreads like a tsunami, can create collective fear that is not always justified. This is because after a stressful public event, such as a terrorist attack or political turmoil, there is often a wave of alarming information ∈ traditional and social media, which individuals absorb well, but that can exaggerate existing danger.
Disponível em: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180613-why-stressed-mindsare-better-at-processing-things Acesso em: 19 ago. 2018
The article discusses “Why stressed minds are more decisive”. Which sentence best explain this question, according to the text.
