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Daniel Amen: “The chronic stress causes your emotional brain to become…”

Featuring: Daniel Amen, Founder and CEO of Amen Clinics | National

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The 11 Risk Factors That Are Destroying Your Brain - Dr Daniel Amen

Published | Video Starts at 35:49

It's something experiential story that you tell yourself, a narrative that is now functionally changing the way that the brain works. Is that the direction that we're into here? Correct. So The chronic stress causes your emotional brain to become hyperactive where now you're always watching for something bad to happen. So that's the negativity bias. So the more ACE score you have, the higher your ACE score, the more likely you are to notice the negative. (35:49–36:01)

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