You Can Deal With Stress

I read about a study done on veterans with post traumatic stress syndrome and their non-veteran twins to see if their brains were affected. The gray matter density is the part of the brain where emotional functioning occurs. They did MRI scans on both people and the veterans showed an area of emotional functioning that was reduced, but not so in the non-veteran twin. This research supports the conclusion that stress can damage the brain in this particular region that can cause damaging emotional consequences.