Princeton University - In unstable times, the brain reduces cell production to help cope. People who experience job loss, divorce, death of a loved one or any number of life's upheavals often adopt coping mechanisms to make the situation less traumatic.

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Princeton University - In unstable times, the brain reduces cell production to help cope. People who experience job loss, divorce, death of a loved one or any number of life's upheavals often adopt coping mechanisms to make the situation less traumatic.