Baboon Brains: A Short Summary

This video was very informative as well as interesting to watch! One thing I found interesting is how when they are testing baboons and found that dominant baboons did not experience stress such as, high levels of blood pressure as much as the baboons that were below the dominant baboons whom experience high levels of stress. Another interesting fact about the video is how they are talking and showing proven research on how stress can negatively affect you’re health such as; causing ulcers in the stomach, high blood-pressure can increase the risk for a heart-attack. Another thing I found interesting was how, they are checking the baboons brains (top baboon and lower baboon in the chain) and found that in the lower baboons, the dopamine levels were dull whereas, the top baboon had bright dopamine. Lastly, I thought it was interesting how the video talks about how “we in humans don’t value in stress reduction yet value
Some Professors to other students can stress us College students as well. For example, Bullying, sexual harassment, violence can happen in College as it can happen out in the real-world and this could cause an individual to be depressed and could cause high levels of stress.
There are times were stress can be prevents, however; many times stress cannot be prevented. After watching this informative video, I now view stress differently. I always knew that stress was common, and knew that there are bad effects of stress that could cause health problems or depression but I never knew this in such detail as the video described. I never knew that they used baboons to test stress levels to help us learn and understand stress more clearly. I never knew how severe the effects of stress were until watching this