From the course: Decision-Making in High-Stress Situations

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Optimizing stress neurochemicals for decision-making

Optimizing stress neurochemicals for decision-making

From the course: Decision-Making in High-Stress Situations

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Optimizing stress neurochemicals for decision-making

- High stress can make any decision feel like a high-pressure decision, needing a quick response, and this, can negatively impact the quality of your decision-making. Good news. There are cool things that neuroscience is discovering about stress and decision-making that can make you avoid the trap of making a hasty decision because you're feeling a lot of stress. Think of stress as being one of two types, or a hybrid of both. Systemic stress is the stress to your body, like heat, cold and pain, and processive stress, is psychological or psychosocial stress, like uncertainty or being evaluated and judged by others. If you've ever tried to make a wise decision with a bad headache, you know how systemic stress impacts decisions, but it's helpful to know that brain regions critical for decision-making are also involved in pain, in ways that negatively impact decision-making. It's even more helpful to know what you can…

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