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How Can Stress Affect Your Memory and Brain

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It is a well-established fact that stress is bad for your health, and for cognitive function in general. However, one of the most significant ways in which this can manifest is through harming your memory. More specifically, stress has been shown to impair a person's ability to recall memories and even encode or form new ones. *Make sure to scroll to the bottom so that you can claim your free gift now!* In this article, we take a more detailed look at the effects of stress on your memory and your brain, and examine a couple of ways in which this impairment can be limited or thwarted entirely. Short-Term Memory To date, one of the most important studies on stress and memory was  published in 2009  by Roman Duncko et al and it focused on the impact of stress on working memory. In this context, working memory refers to temporarily stored information, which is then referred to in order to carry out specific, short-term tasks. Participants were divided into a control group a