Correct Levels Of Stress Hormones Boost Learning, Squirrel Study Suggests

[masmdu]

Source: ScienceDaily

Ground squirrel pups typically emerge from their burrows about the time they're weaned, at four weeks of age.

Read more: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080314085041.htm

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NUTS!

[Juche]

1. adrenaline too

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=39955

The right amount of adrenaline improves learning. Too much stresses you out, too little blocks memory (adrenaline blockers like beta blockers are starting to be used to treat PTSD for example).

Science is fun

[Locrian]

2. Adrenalin and Cortisol

Adrenalin and Cortisol: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Demystifying_Depression:The_Stress_System

As someone who has personally suffered thru adrenal fatigue, it's good to see they are studying the obvious. Learning in Squirrels. Nice. (ok - I so I know it has implications and it's good they are looking at it - just wonder what "new" and $$ drug they will develop for the solution)

And I GUARANTEE that almost 100% of the PTSD vets (and probably 80% active) have some sort of adrenal fatigue (ie low cortisol, burned out adrenal glands). What is sad is that this was well known problem in the 1950s. The bible of adrenal fatigue / use of cortisol to treat a wide range of problems was written by Jefferies.

http://www.amazon.com/Safe-Uses-Cortisol-William-Jefferies/dp/0398066213

But cortisol got an early bad rap for being used in dosages 10x required. Now, it's cheap and doesn't have any patents left. So it never gets proscribed.