Short stressful events may improve working memory
pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bN8rDXgN-Y8xxG8OMBHhPHuUEmc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bN8rDXgN-Y8xxG8OMBHhPHuUEmc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/
a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bN8rDXgN-Y8xxG8OMBHhPHuUEmc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bN8rDXgN-Y8xxG8OMBHhPHuUEmc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pExperiencing chronic stress day after day can produce wear and tear on the body physically and mentally, and can have a detrimental effect on learning and emotion. However, acute stress -- a short stressful incident -- may enhance learning and memory.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrainMysteries/~4/X5sjccRBjcc" height="1" width="1"/