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The stress response is how the body innately responds when it’s knocked out of balance, and what it does to return back to equilibrium.

Cerebral activity in the prefrontal area of the brain, the part involved in executive functions, decision-making and other complex cognitive processes, may be reduced.12 Your body may produce lower levels of cortisol, which is released to help the body respond to stress.13

When those areas are deactivated, people lose their sense of time and become trapped in the moment, without a sense of past, present, or future.

ethologically oriented psychiatrists have begun to study what they call psychobiological response patterns and deeply homologous neural structures which they hold responsible for the achievement of healthy or unhealthy patterns of adjustment in individual patients in response to variations in their social environment.

The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux calls the pathway to the amygdala “the low road,” which is extremely fast, and that to the frontal cortex the “high road,” which takes several milliseconds longer in the midst of an overwhelmingly threatening experience.

The parietal lobe,

As long as the trauma is not resolved, the stress hormones that the body secretes to protect itself keep circulating, and the defensive movements and emotional responses keep getting replayed.

how the aging process may be influenced by the amount of stress experienced over a lifetime.