Stress Response: Savior to Killer

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As we've evolved, the human stress response has saved our lives. Today, we turn on the same life-saving physical reaction to cope with intense, ongoing stressors - and we can't seem to turn it off. Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, reveals just how dangerous prolonged exposure to stress can be in the documentary, "Stress: Portrait of a Killer."
Stress: Portrait of a Killer Website: http://killerstress.stanford.edu/ Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford/

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wow! nice video. ... ( 3 months ago by JayashriV)

wow! nice video. thanks. :D

Nice introduction ... ( 3 months ago by Lihinel)

Nice introduction on why one should have a personal interest in trying to understand the mechanics of his own brain at least a bit. Thx for the upload.

Great video. We ... ( 3 months ago by Chilldogg)

Great video. We love the animals of the Mara!!!

Great video! ( 3 months ago by CharlieT301)

Great video!

I just watched this ... ( 3 months ago by MacSmiley)

I just watched this entire program on PBS on Wednesday night. It is absolutely outstanding. Stanford, you should put every minute of this program online for free viewing... as a public service.

I woke up with this ... ( 3 months ago by nightowl2be)

I woke up with this on and I caught the last 15 minutes of it. It was very fascinating, especially since I got a degree in psychology and my mom is one of those mothers with a disabled child, my brother. I was wondering when it would be on again?

sapolskiiiiiiii ( 2 months ago by threelegduck)

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i don't know ... ... ( 2 months ago by threelegduck)

i don't know ... i'm gonna try to look for it again now. let me know if you find it + i'll do likewise

haha lol so nurdy! ( 2 months ago by HABBOnorway)

haha lol so nurdy!

check out :31 Lion ... ( 1 month ago by shoegooguru)

check out :31 Lion gets a taste of some Zebra Judo!!!
Hey...if you turn this guys head upside down, he looks the same!!!!!

As a ... ( 1 month ago by GaryHilburger)

As a second-generation Parkinson's Patient, I witnessed the father whose example taught me the great lessons of life save the best until last, one that I now pass on to my children. But the visible component - the tremors and dyskenesia - are mild by comparison to the disabling effects of stress that cause panic attacks so severe that death by cardiac arrest seemed always imminent and, taken with increasing slowness of mental processes and inability to self-monitor my own tasks, ended my work

Very interesting. ... ( 1 week ago by SHAenima)

Very interesting. This makes me want to study human pyschology.

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