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Don't Worry, It's Normal: when We're Stressed, the Brain Loses Its Ability to Orient Itself in Space.

Losing the north under stress has nothing to imagine. Cortisol blurs the system that helps the brain to orient itself in space, shows a new study by MRI. Stress hormone blurs the internal map of the brain To orient itself, the brain relies on grid cells, or grid cells. These neurons form a kind of coordinate system, comparable to an internal GPS. They activate according to a regular pattern when we move into space. This grid allows us to know wh…
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Losing the north under stress has nothing to imagine. Cortisol blurs the system that helps the brain to orient itself in space, shows a new study by MRI. Stress hormone blurs the internal map of the brain To orient itself, the brain relies on grid cells, or grid cells. These neurons form a kind of coordinate system, comparable to an internal GPS. They activate according to a regular pattern when we move into space. This grid allows us to know wh…

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Saturday, June 6, 2026.
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