Everyone knows that stress is bad, but just how bad is it? You know that stress affects your body — but have you ever stopped to think about how it affects your mind? Stress doesn’t just stop at the muscles. “Stress Hormones Block Our Brains And Senses From Learning – Medical Daily” explains how stress hormones can actually keep you from retaining information.

Key Takeaways:

• A group of German researchers has found that the stress hormone cortisol blocks our senses’ ability to learn.
• This could be crucial information for people who are currently treated with corticosteroids
• We have discovered that it also has a major effect on our perception and perceptual learning.

“A group of German researchers has found that the stress hormone cortisol blocks our senses’ ability to learn, in a test that involved sensory stimulation, according to a study in Psychoneuroendocrinology.”

http://www.medicaldaily.com/stress-hormones-block-our-brains-and-senses-learning-408333