Literature Review On Stress

Why have more than two-thousand people exonerated for crimes they didn’t commit? Eyewitness misidentification is the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the U.S. Memory can be influenced by anxiety, stress, reconstructive memory and other factors possibly affecting the testimony of the eyewitness and in turn, misleading the jury. I think that when subjects witness a crime they will struggle to remember important details of the event, and their recollection could be easily altered. This is because the reconstructive memory can be influenced by factors such as stress, anxiety, and verbal cues.

Bremner, J Douglas. Does Stress Damage the Brain? WW Norton & Company, 2002, books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=kQE008A-KJwC&oi=fnd&pg=PP15&dq=Does stress damage the brain%3F: understanding trauma-related disorders from a mind-body perspective&ots=NjYA-3ei28&sig=Ar1ZaSwf69ahCWlnh3l_qRqd_T8#v=onepage&q&f=false.

People who suffer a traumatic childhood most often grow up scarred from the experience. They suffer both psychological and emotional distress from the memories hanging around their minds from the traumatic experience. These kind of people often times have the most tendencies to suffer from depression, self isolation and even the likelihood of suicide as a result of their childhood experience.

Stress can cause a myriad of behavioral and psychological disorders. Although occupational and traumatic stress affects behavior and the psyche, there are also biological, physical, and physiological effects and manifestations due to stress.

The human brain a powerful tool. It allows us to learn, see, remember, hear, perceive, and understand language. Sometimes, the human brain also fails us. Trauma is often the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one's ability to cope, or when you experience a life-threatening event to yourself or someone close to you, accompanied by intense fear, horror or helplessness (according to Webster dictionary). Psychological Trauma interferes the area in the brain such as amygdala (involved in emotion management), and the hippocampus (involved in memory and memory consolidation). To help heal the mind we must understand how trauma works in the brain.

DNA and hormones have a manipulative effect on our daily life’s. For example Cortisol is the hormone that controls our energy levels in times of stress (DuVall). We all have experienced the feeling of being “stressed”. Some people tend to get stressed over little problems and some tend to get stressed over bigger problems. Dr. Nadolsky states that high levels of cortisol have been shown to cause cardiovascular issues. This means that the hormone can be good to an extend. Cortisol spikes can also be experienced during intense exercise, and continues to rise as the workout session goes on. (DuVall). This means that the hormone Cortisol has a manipulate effect on your daily life, whether you are stressed or simply out for a

Brain connectivity is one of the most enigmatic question posed to neuro-biologists. The establishment of this intricate network in prenates and neonates brain is influenced in equal measures by environmental and biological factors. In it's extension, certain environmental stimulation boost the parameters for improved brain connectivity.

2.5.8 The Mood-Congruent Model. Continuing with the investigation of the memory-emotion relationship, even though stress-memory relationship and their related mechanisms that are associated with false memories have been discussed meticulously so far, the relationship between memory and depression has not been investigated in this paper yet. Past research has shown that that people diagnosed with depression or other affective disorders tend to have memory bias for emotional information. Thus, they tend to make conclusions regarding emotional information with different criteria from healthy individuals. Emotional memory appears to be influenced by their mood and particularly depression and negative mood have been associated with memory impairments

According to National Institute of Health, stress is an internal state that people experience as they encounter changes throughout their lives.

This source covers many solutions to help relieve stress. For example, something as simple as breathing correctly can help alleviate some stress. Many people breathe with only a small portion of their lungs, resulting in short, small breaths. By breathing through the abdomens, the stress on one’s shoulders and back will be reduced. Exposing oneself to nature can also alleviate stress. A study was conducted at Stanford University with two different groups. One group was placed in a forestry area and the other on a busy street. Brain scans were later taken of the participants, revealing that the nature group displayed less negative thoughts while those on the busy street exhibited more negative thoughts, proving that nature helps lessen the effects of stress as depression and anxiety are primary effects of stress. Additionally, massages may soften the impact of stress on the body. During stress, cortisol levels can rise abnormally high resulting in high blood pressure, heart disease, type II diabetes, depression, or anxiety. Massage is known to lessen the presence of this hormone, which will protect one from the harmful effects of it.

Stress is a word derived from Latin word “Stingere” meaning to draw tight. (Mojoyinola, 2008) Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand or threat. When you feel threatened, your nervous system responds by releasing a flood of stress hormones, and including adrenaline and cortisol, which rouse the body for emergency action. Your heart pounds faster, muscles tighten, blood pressure rises, breath quickens, and your senses become sharper. These physical changes increase your strength and stamina, speed your reaction time, and enhance your focus. The workplace had become a high stress environment in many organizations cutting across industries. Employees were experiencing high level of stress due to various factors

Tartakovsky, M. (2011). 10 Practical Ways to Handle Stress. Psych Central. Retrieved on November 16, 2015, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/07/11/10-practical-ways-to-handle-stress/

Stress refers to a dynamic interaction between the individual and the environment. In this interaction, demands, limitations and opportunities related to work may be perceived as threatening to surpass the individual's resources and skills. Stress is any physical or psychological stimulus that disturbs the adaptive state and provoked a coping response

When students go home after school they should be able to relax right? In an ideal world students should just be able to take there bag off and chill, go out with friends, play video games or go play sports at the park or something right, but no. Nowadays the average high school teenager has to go home, sit down at a table and basically continue school for another two-three hours. We have to do homework almost immediately after school because if we don’t then we will be up until 12 or later doing homework. Not to mention the students athletes that come home late anyway from practices/games and then have to take a shower, eat dinner and then sit down to finish all of their homework. I attend Montgomery Blair high school, where we have a block schedule so our homework isn’t due for two days which is helpful but most high schools students have eight classes a day and the homework assigned is normally due the next day of school. All of this homework causes stress amongst teenagers. Students have to stress every single day in school to make sure they do well so they can attend the college of their chose, we shouldn’t have to go

Various studies across the globe have emphasised that students undertaking professional courses, are subjected to higher stress. Excessive stress could lead to psychological problems like depression and anxiety.