This is true because while the hippocampus can be affected, exercise and doing helpful and healthy things to lower the stress levels can help that brain development. By doing exercise and things to help lower stress, it will be beneficial to the brain as well. I think exercise is a great way to cope and deal with stress and to make it easier. It can be an escape for most people and for many, it's helped them achieve their biggest obstacles.

Too much stress really can cause changes in the brain. Cortisol and chronic stress have been proven to change the brain and even damage it. Research done can show some insight into how "white matter" is changing conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, depression, etc.Researchers are just now starting to understand how too much stress and cortisol can have long term effects on the brain. Now, this could explain why young people who are exposed to chronic stress so young are prone to mental health problems as well as learning difficulties.

This is true because Burnett suggested that these same areas of the brain are affected if there is too much stress going on in the brain and can cause further memory damage. I agree with the amount of stress standardized tests cause students and rather than helping them and the brain, it is affecting them. These are major areas in the brain and are very important to take good care of rather than always putting stress on them from standardized testing.

So many students worry and stress about standardized test as young as third grade and these children are experiencing physical and psychological symptoms.Students will come home crying, experiencing stomach pains and sometimes even panic attacks. Stress and anxiety is starting to show itself more in students throughout the years. The amount of stress is increasing while control of your body is decreasing. Standardized tests have huge consequences if you don't do good so students always worry and stress about them.