What Does Stress Really Do To Your Brain? | Insight From A Neurologist
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we connect with Robert M. Sapolsky, a neuroendocrinology researcher and professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. In addition to this, he is also the author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, and the forthcoming Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will.
Robert has spent much of his time studying a population of wild baboons in Kenya. Through this research, he is focused on uncovering issues related to stress and neuronal degeneration – and understanding various gene therapy strategies for protecting susceptible neurons from disease…
Click play to learn more about:
- What stress does to your brain.
- How social primates manage stress, and what it has to do with their social hierarchy.
- What happens when the dominance hierarchy is stable.
- The difference between being high-ranking and having strong social affiliations.
You can find out more about Robert and his work here!
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:29.0 | Become the geniuses. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | The Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Now, part of the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 0:43.0 | I have a really great guest, Robert M.S. |
| 0:46.0 | I use the author of several works at non-fiction, including a primates memoir. |
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| 0:53.0 | I will get ulcers. |
| 0:54.0 | His most recent book, Behave, was a New York Times bestseller. |
| 0:58.0 | He is a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University. |
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