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26 November 2018 Multimedia

Why Investors Must Understand and Manage Chronic Stress

  1. Mithu Storoni, MD, PhD

Stress is on the rise. Why is the brain chronically stressed, and why is this a problem for investors today? In this episode, Mithu Storoni, an eye surgeon who holds a PhD in neuro-ophthalmology and author of the book Stress-Proof, explains that chronic stress is changing the structure of the brain, thinning the part that carries the seat of sophisticated decision making, and this is a problem for investors today because we have to compete with artificial intelligence (AI).

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