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Plugging leaks in the blood-brain barrier could prevent or even reverse dementia onset

A recent study links anxiety behavior in rats, as well as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans, to increased myelin - a substance that expedites communication between neurons - in areas of the brain associated with emotions and memory.

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How's it going in that boiling lobster pot of stress? The last year of living in a pandemic has stretched human coping skills so thin that experts fear many of us may soon snap, leaving people around the world coping with a mental health crisis of catastrophic proportions. In the United States alone, a recent analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found reports of anxiety or depression climbed from 36% to 42% in the six months between August 2020 and February 2021. Yet some people — in fact, many people — somehow manage to weather stress just fine. Do tho...

The pandemic has stressed us to the breaking point, experts fear, but there is a way to fight back against the damage stress can do.