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Posted by Boston Sports Medicine and Performance Group on Mon, Dec 1, 2014 @ 08:12 AM

 

Registration for the 2015 BSMPG Summer Seminar is now OPEN!

 

 

Hear world stress expert Dr. Robert Sapolsky and other international thought leaders including PRI's James Anderson, England's Al Smith, Brain Researcher Vincent Walsh and the Canadian Senior Men's Basketball Performance staff including Sam Gibbs, Charlie Weingroff and Roman Fomin at the 2015 BSMPG Summer Seminar.

Other sports medicine/rehabilitation and performance speakers include: Mike Davis, Alan Gruver, Eric Oetter, Sam Coad, and Jay DeMayo.  Additional speakers to be added in the coming weeks!

Date: May 15-16, 2015.

Location: Boston, MA

 

 

SAPOLSKY  why zebras dont get ulcers big

 

DR. ROBERT SAPOLSKY

Professor of Biological Sciences, Neurology, Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery, Stanford University

 

Keynote Address: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress, Disease and Coping

A lecture on stress and where stress-related diseases come from.  It is based on Dr. Sapolsky's book by the same title.  

Robert Sapolsky is one of the world's leading neuroscientists, and has been called "one of the finest natural history writers around" by The New York Times. In studying wild baboon populations, Sapolsky examined how prolonged stress can cause physical and mental afflictions. His lab was among the first to document that stress can damage the neurons of the hippocampus. Sapolsky has shown, in both human and baboon societies, that low social status is a major contributor to stress and stress-related illness. He boils down the contemporary human's relationship with stress as follows: "We are not getting our ulcers being chased by Saber-tooth tigers, we're inventing our social stressors—and if some baboons are good at dealing with this, we should be able to as well. Insofar as we're smart enough to have invented this stuff and stupid enough to fall for it, we have the potential to be wise enough to keep [these stressors] inperspective." Sapolsky's study of stress in non-human primates has offered fascinating insight into how human beings relate to this universal pressure.

 

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