Even mild stress can make it difficult to control your emotions, study finds

"Even mild stress can thwart therapeutic measures to control emotions, a team of neuroscientists at New York University has found. Their findings, which appear in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, point to the limits of clinical techniques while also shedding new light on the barriers that must be overcome in addressing afflictions such as fear or anxiety...."

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-mild-stress-difficult-emotions.html

Raio et al. (2013). "Cognitive emotion regulation fails the stress test." PNAS. Abstract.

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