Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 day agoDo You Get Lost When You're Stressed? Blame Cortisol
Cortisol impairs spatial orientation abilities by affecting the brain's navigation system.
It's a fabulous weapon. It allows us to transform the world, understand ourselves, ask ourselves what we are All animals have a brain that allows them to survive, but we have done something much more powerful with it: we not only survived, but we have created a culture, a civilization And there's an enormous journey ahead: we might blow ourselves up before then through our own fault, but we have an unparalleled capacity for transformation and understanding