+ Stress makes you forgetful. PKC (kinase C protein) is activated when you’re under stress and undermines short term memory. Making you easily distractable, with heightened sensitivity to stimulous.
“If you’re in dangerous conditions it helps to be distractible, to hear every little sound in the woods and react rapidly, instinctually,” she said. “It’s like getting cut off on the highway. You don’t want to be a slow, thoughtful creature. … You want to react and hit (the) brakes.”
Interesting to note PCK’s relationship to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia..
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