"Burned out at work” Unfortunately, the phrase is familiar to many people... It describes a condition called emotional burnout. Such a syndrome occurs due to chronic stress in the workplace. But how does this pathological condition manifest itself at the level of physiology🤔 Of course, it has its morphological manifestations at the level of the brain! It was found out that in people with long emotional burnout the frontal cortex - a region of the brain necessary for cognitive processes - begins to thin. Along with it, the volume of gray matter decreases in the hippocampus, which participates in the formation of emotions and memory consolidation. In addition, the amount of cortisol produced decreases. This is the stress hormone, which is responsible for energy storage in the body and is involved in the synthesis of cellular enzymes⚡️ By the way, that’s why emotional burnout leads to the development of diabetes and obesity.