Chronic stress can make us worn-out anxious and depressed as well as also lead to structural changes in the brain finds a new study that also developed a new drug that might help in preventing these changes. The findings showed that when mice experienced prolonged stress the amygdala -- a part of the brain that regulates basic emotions such as fear and anxiety -- retracts. In the medial amygdala the neuronal branches which form crucial connections to other parts of the brain appeared to shrink. Such shrinking can harm the brain distorting its ability to adapt to new experiences leaving
