“How to recognize danger?” — the first lecture in Sergei Lopatin’s series “Biology of Stress”

Waking up in the morning is stressful, coming to work is also stressful, and if you open the news... Life is literally made up of stress. But despite its ominous reputation, it is an adaptive response that allows us to cope with the problems that have arisen. It is all the more important to understand what happens in us when a stress reaction is just beginning, when it fades away... And when it gets the better of us What happened: bad or good? How does the brain choose the right reaction? In what cases and how can you act automatically, and when should you look for non-standard solutions? In the first lecture of the course, we will discuss what happens in our brain in the first second!