How Does The Limbic System and Fight or Flight Response Effect My Brain Injury?

Tonight, Ken Collins will talk about the groundbreaking work his is doing to understand how the Limbic System and the Fight or Flight Resonse affects people with brain injuries.  For Example:  After the fight or Flight Response is triggered - stress hormones divert blood glucose to exercising muscles, therefore the amount of glucose - hence energy - that reaches the brain's hippocampus is deminished.  This creates an energy crisis in the hippocampus which compromises its ability to create new memories..  That may be why people can't remember a very traumatic event, and why short-term memory is usually the first casualty of age related memory loss from a lifetime of stress.  Ken will be doing a webinar on these topics at the Brain Injury Resource Center in Albuqurque, New Mexico on April 15th from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM.  Please listen and call into the program tonight with any questions and observations.