Finding Genius Podcast

What Does Stress Really Do To Your Brain? | Insight From A Neurologist


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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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