NEWS: Stress is good for women's memory

Bouts of stress could be good for your memory, especially if you are a woman.



These are the findings of University of Cape Town academic Christopher du Plooy's five-year research.

As part of his doctoral thesis, Du Plooy conducted a study into whether acute stress affects the memory. He found that while acute stress does not impair people's visual and spatial memory [memory related to information such as pictures], exposure to it does appear to improve verbal memory [memory related to verbal information such as words and stories] in women.

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