Everyone experiences stress, but how does it affect you? Using two powerful stress triggers to elicit stress responses in the audience, Dr. Edward Kinghorn humorously describes the physiology of stress and purposes of the body’s stress responses. He emphasizes that anticipation and worry prolong the stress response which can be significantly damaging to both physical and mental health. He then encourages listeners to pay attention to how they respond to stress and take actions to better mitigate and control their reactions to life’s stressors. Edward W. Kinghorn, PhD, received his doctorate in Experimental Physiological Psychology from BYU in 1986 and is a licensed Clinical Neuropsychologist in HI, UT, and ID. He is a Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Department of Psychology at BYU-Hawaii. From 1996-1998, he was a Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Utah Health Science Center. He recently served as a volunteer Area Mental Health Advisor for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Central America. Throughout his career, he worked as a Disaster Mental Health Specialist with American Red Cross, which included various local assignments, and serving in New York City after the 9-11 attacks and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. His clinical and research interests include the Neuropsychology of stress, Functional Neuro-imaging (fMRI), and cortical language brain mapping in epilepsy. He and his wife Lee Anne have 8 children, 22 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
