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These stress-signaling pathways get released and they rapidly impair the higher cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex that includes things like working memory, with chronic stress, you actually lose gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, in sadly the exact regions that are involved with inhibiting the stress response and those areas that give you insight that you’re needing help. – Amy Arnsten	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Where is that leadership now? we will not bend to the will of the mob. We will continue to enforce our laws. We're in a bad spot right now because we're taking draconian actions, such as curfews, that impair businesses… the convenience of our residents. – Commissioner Ricky Arriola	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You don't have senses so you can impair them with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. You don't have a life so you can make bad decisions and harm yourself and or others, smarten up. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 2 years ago
The men and women of the Texas House, many of whom are Black and Brown Democrats, are not animals or property to be corralled by law enforcement and cabined against our will. It is morally wrong to believe otherwise. We will not allow our democracy to devolve into dictatorship ; we will use every tool necessary to defend Texas Constitution, angry Republican threats to dispatch troopers to arrest, cuff, shackle, drag in, and cabin duly-elected lawmakers isn't just meant to chill our speech and impair our ability to represent our districts, it has left our families, friends, and neighbors anxious for our wellbeing and safety. – Martinez Fischer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Circadian misalignment could also lead to inadequate sleep duration and quality, which could also impair mood and exacerbate mood disorders. – Kristen Knutson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Children and farm workers in California will no longer be exposed to this neurotoxic pesticide that can permanently impair the brain and nervous systems. – Ken Cook	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I learned that Patrick Frazee had committed a homicide on approximately Nov. 22, 2018 in Teller County. I knew that law enforcement would be investigating that crime. I moved the victim's cell phone with the intent to impair the phone's availability in the investigation. – Krystal Kenney	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
That the U.S. ambassador is now turning to German companies with direct threats is a new and unacceptable one-sided tightening of the tone in the transatlantic relationship, if the U.S. president thinks he has to publicly show he is getting tough on Russia in view of the many question marks regarding his relationship with Moscow, he should not thereby impair the relationship with his most important ally. – Juergen Hardt	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Drinking alcohol can impair the liver's ability to release the right amount of glycogen, or stored glucose, into the blood to keep blood glucose levels stable. – Ginger Hultin	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I take congressman Nunes' point that this has created a cloud over the Trump White House right now, that will probably impair their ability to advance their legislative agenda. – Brian Fallon	Found on CNN 7 years ago
That will probably impair their ability to advance their legislative agenda. – Brian Fallon	Found on CNN 7 years ago
When we say them again and again, it can impair the parent-child relationship because it suggests the problem is not the behavior, but the problem is the child. – Erica Reischer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Those phrases are using shame, blame and fear to motivate behavior, when we say them again and again, it can impair the parent-child relationship because it suggests the problem is not the behavior, but the problem is the child. – Erica Reischer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I did so with the intent both to impair the integrity of the cellular phone and to make it unavailable for any subsequent criminal proceeding. – Thomas Davis	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We’re living longer and we are healthier and we have better health care, health itself can be an issue, but it should n’t be related to age in a way that suggests it would impair your ability to be president. – Terry Madonna	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Policies barring participation in interrogation and force feeding are necessary to enable health professionals to fulfill ethical obligations adopted by the health professions to avoid inflicting harm, to be loyal to their patients, and to exercise independent professional judgment, adherence to these ethical standards protects the rights of members of the military and detainees in military custody and also makes our military stronger by avoiding a gulf between military and civilian medicine that could impair recruiting of well qualified health professionals. – Leonard Rubenstein	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
(Chicago's law) doesn't diminish and impair pensions, it saves pensions, that argument has not been addressed. – Stephen Patton	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's taking kids along the track of, 'Well, you're putting in jeopardy your potential to do well in school or to graduate or to be successful once you get your driver's license because marijuana does impair you if you're going to use it and drive, and it does impair you if you're trying to study or you're trying to do well in school or you're trying to get a good job. – Larry Wolk	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Disclosure of an individual's inclusion or non-inclusion in the TSDB (screening databases) would significantly impair the government's ability to investigate and counteract terrorism. – Dave Joly	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Such an event could lead investors to withdraw from short-term funding markets more broadly, which could impair the ability of large financial firms to serve as financial intermediaries. – The FSOC	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss. – Montaigne	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it. – Cervantes	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. – Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago

These stress-signaling pathways get released and they rapidly impair the higher cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex that includes things like working memory, with chronic stress, you actually lose gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, in sadly the exact regions that are involved with inhibiting the stress response and those areas that give you insight that you’re needing help.

– Amy Arnsten

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Where is that leadership now? we will not bend to the will of the mob. We will continue to enforce our laws. We're in a bad spot right now because we're taking draconian actions, such as curfews, that impair businesses… the convenience of our residents.

– Commissioner Ricky Arriola

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You don't have senses so you can impair them with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. You don't have a life so you can make bad decisions and harm yourself and or others, smarten up.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

The men and women of the Texas House, many of whom are Black and Brown Democrats, are not animals or property to be corralled by law enforcement and cabined against our will. It is morally wrong to believe otherwise. We will not allow our democracy to devolve into dictatorship ; we will use every tool necessary to defend Texas Constitution, angry Republican threats to dispatch troopers to arrest, cuff, shackle, drag in, and cabin duly-elected lawmakers isn't just meant to chill our speech and impair our ability to represent our districts, it has left our families, friends, and neighbors anxious for our wellbeing and safety.

– Martinez Fischer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Circadian misalignment could also lead to inadequate sleep duration and quality, which could also impair mood and exacerbate mood disorders.

– Kristen Knutson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Children and farm workers in California will no longer be exposed to this neurotoxic pesticide that can permanently impair the brain and nervous systems.

– Ken Cook

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I learned that Patrick Frazee had committed a homicide on approximately Nov. 22, 2018 in Teller County. I knew that law enforcement would be investigating that crime. I moved the victim's cell phone with the intent to impair the phone's availability in the investigation.

– Krystal Kenney

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

That the U.S. ambassador is now turning to German companies with direct threats is a new and unacceptable one-sided tightening of the tone in the transatlantic relationship, if the U.S. president thinks he has to publicly show he is getting tough on Russia in view of the many question marks regarding his relationship with Moscow, he should not thereby impair the relationship with his most important ally.

– Juergen Hardt

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Drinking alcohol can impair the liver's ability to release the right amount of glycogen, or stored glucose, into the blood to keep blood glucose levels stable.

– Ginger Hultin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I take congressman Nunes' point that this has created a cloud over the Trump White House right now, that will probably impair their ability to advance their legislative agenda.

– Brian Fallon

Found on CNN
7 years ago

That will probably impair their ability to advance their legislative agenda.

– Brian Fallon

Found on CNN
7 years ago

When we say them again and again, it can impair the parent-child relationship because it suggests the problem is not the behavior, but the problem is the child.

– Erica Reischer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Those phrases are using shame, blame and fear to motivate behavior, when we say them again and again, it can impair the parent-child relationship because it suggests the problem is not the behavior, but the problem is the child.

– Erica Reischer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I did so with the intent both to impair the integrity of the cellular phone and to make it unavailable for any subsequent criminal proceeding.

– Thomas Davis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We’re living longer and we are healthier and we have better health care, health itself can be an issue, but it should n’t be related to age in a way that suggests it would impair your ability to be president.

– Terry Madonna

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Policies barring participation in interrogation and force feeding are necessary to enable health professionals to fulfill ethical obligations adopted by the health professions to avoid inflicting harm, to be loyal to their patients, and to exercise independent professional judgment, adherence to these ethical standards protects the rights of members of the military and detainees in military custody and also makes our military stronger by avoiding a gulf between military and civilian medicine that could impair recruiting of well qualified health professionals.

– Leonard Rubenstein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

(Chicago's law) doesn't diminish and impair pensions, it saves pensions, that argument has not been addressed.

– Stephen Patton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's taking kids along the track of, 'Well, you're putting in jeopardy your potential to do well in school or to graduate or to be successful once you get your driver's license because marijuana does impair you if you're going to use it and drive, and it does impair you if you're trying to study or you're trying to do well in school or you're trying to get a good job.

– Larry Wolk

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Disclosure of an individual's inclusion or non-inclusion in the TSDB (screening databases) would significantly impair the government's ability to investigate and counteract terrorism.

– Dave Joly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Such an event could lead investors to withdraw from short-term funding markets more broadly, which could impair the ability of large financial firms to serve as financial intermediaries.

– The FSOC

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

– Montaigne

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.

– Cervantes

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

– Seneca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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