Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Everyday Stress Can Shut Down the Brain's Chief Command Center (preview)

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The entrance exam to medical school consists of a five-hour fusillade of hundreds of questions that, even with the best preparation, often leaves the test taker discombobulated and anxious. For some would-be physicians, the relentless pressure causes their reasoning abilities to slow and even shut down entirely. The experience--known variously as choking, brain freeze, nerves, jitters, folding, blanking out, the yips or a dozen other descriptive terms--is all too familiar to virtually anyone who has flubbed a speech, bumped up against writer’s block or struggled through a lengthy exam.

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