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On Monday, March 21, 2022, the Alan Hu Foundation Mental Health Lecture Series featured a webinar by Dr. Robert Sapolsky, “Stress and Mental Health”. 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.
Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities (MHACC) https://www.mhacc-usa.org collaborated with Alan Hu Foundation to provide instant Chinese interpretation.
We were honored and privileged that Dr. Sapolsky shared the knowledge and experiences of his research on stress and mental health. We were grateful to our audience for tuning in across America as well as from Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Republic of Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and United Kingdom. Thank you, MHACC Founder and President Elaine Peng. Thank you, Ida Shaw, for simultaneous Chinese Interpretation.