Stress and Mental Health/Webinar by Stanford Professor Dr. Sapolsky (excerpt) 3/21/2022

On Monday, March 21, 2022, the Alan Hu Foundation Mental Health Lecture Series featured a webinar by Dr. Robert Sapolsky, “Stress and Mental Health”. Here is an excerpt of Dr. Sapolsky's presentation.
Dr. Sapolsky explained, “Science has known for close to a century that stress, particularly chronic psychological stress, is bad for the health of virtually every organ in the body. It has only been much more recently that it has become clear how stress can adversely impact the brain, with a wide range of implications for mood, cognition and behavior. This lecture will give a non-technical overview of the effects of stress and stress hormones on brain function.”
Dr. Sapolsky is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor, and Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University, and a research associate at the National Museum of Kenya. His 2008 National Geographic special on stress, and his online lectures about human behavioral biology have been watched tens of millions of times. The humor and humanity he brings to sometimes sobering subject matter makes Dr. Sapolsky a fascinating speaker. He lectures widely on topics as diverse as stress and stress-related diseases, depression, memory, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. His latest book, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, is a New York Times best-seller, a Washington Post Best Book of 2017, and received the Los Angeles Times book prize. His articles have appeared in publications including Discover, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. His upcoming book is entitled, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.
The free webinar was held on Monday, March 21, 2022, from 3:30 - 4:30 pm, PDT. Participants may join beginning at 3:15 pm. The webinar included 15 minutes for questions and answers following Dr. Sapolsky’s presentation. The Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities (www.mhacc-usa.org) provided simultaneous Chinese interpretation.
The Pleasanton, California-based Alan Hu Foundation was created by Xiaofang Chen and Chih-Ching Hu in memory of their son, Alan. He passed away due to mental disorders in 2018 at the age of 15. Their mission is to promote mental health, raise awareness and remove stigma surrounding psychiatric disorders, and to support fundamental research for cures.
For further information and to support the Alan Hu Foundation, please visit the website: alanhufoundation.org/helping

[@vaselineintensivecaredrysk3160]

Post the full lecture please🙃

[@kaanaydemi.r]

This man is a gem

[@subbannar7319]

Yes

[@danielgiordani7625]

He’s a genius. One of the smartest people in the world for sure.

[@nancychace8619]

Audio is pretty much compromised in some spots, sorry. What I could hear was interesting.

[@riellymorton]

explains most of my college experience oof

[@belmounlv1]

Interesting topic, poor quality recording. Difficukt to hear.

[@briseboy]

It IS interesting to hear Sapolsky speaking from under the Bay!

[@wayofspinoza2471]

Robert Sapolsky, no question, you are a highly educated scientist, and you see man as a biological animal with an intelligent potential. However, man is more than a physical thing. You are so right in thinking about man doesn’t have free will. Spinoza, a 17th century philosopher, explains in his Ethics the nature of man, the mind, freedom from emotional bondage, and his relationship with Nature. Spinoza understood that all animals are governed, influenced, and are determined by laws. The law of necessity, the law of self-preservation, the law of inertial, and the law of cause and effect. Lastly, the brain is not the mind. The brain is a physical thing that is the storehouse of information such as memory, and which helps regulate all the systems of the body. The mind is a non-tangible thinking thing. Its nature or essential nature is knowledge comprised of clear and confused ideas. Spinoza explains that when our thinking is clear and true, that God constitutes the essence of our mind. We are not separate from the whole of Nature or God. Spinoza’s God is Nature, a non-anthropomorphic being.

[@oscarmudd6579]

This is exactly why our religious extremists cause stress. "If you only loved Jesus, you wouldn't be mentally ill."

[@_justnick]

Is he in a helicopter?!

[@threemad]

how bout them gut microbiomes brudda

[@jqyhlmnp]

Are you alright?

[@B----------------------------D]

Aw hell nah, 2mad really losing it 😔

[@sergeantballsack5114]

Nobody gonna answer him?