Stress May Be Literally Shrinking Your Brain — Here's What You Need To Know

Need more motivation to finally cut stress out of your life for good? How about better memory and more brain power?

A new study published in Neurology compared people's cortisol levels with cognitive functioning and brain volume. By testing things like memory, attention, and visual perception, along with administering an MRI to look at brain volume, the results showed people with higher cortisol levels performed worse than those with average cortisol levels on cognitive tests. It also showed that women with higher cortisol levels had lower brain volume, while men did not. 

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