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...will be more nervous hosting the ESPYs. I've played basketball my whole life, but this is the first time I'm hosting something. So it's going...
Could you give me some advice on what to do if I am nervous before games? Guy Riesenberg, RA'ANANA, ISRAEL...
...listen to music to try to calm down and just get into my comfort zone. I listen to a lot of Jay-Z before the games. I'm not nervous because I'm afraid. I'm nervous because I'm excited...
...this doesn't mean, of course, that Maliki's men aren't nervous. Even those closest to him are wondering if some of those rumors might be true. At a recent meeting in the Green Zone, an aide to Maliki was nervously joking with U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker. "I hear we're gone on September 30th," he told Crocker. But Crocker joked back with a zinger, "What's wrong with Sept. 15th?" That's the day when General David Petraeus and Crocker are slated to report to Congress on the effectiveness of the troop surge. The Administration is then expected...
Among higher creatures like us, stress can also alter the way the brain thinks, particularly the way it contemplates the consequences of actions. Recall the last time you found yourself in a stressful situation--when you were scared, nervous or threatened. Your brain tuned out everything besides whatever it was that was frightening you--the familiar fight-or-flight mode. "The part of the prefrontal cortex that is involved in deliberative cognition is shut down by stress," says Vocci. "It's supposed to be, but it's even more inhibited in substance abusers." A less responsive prefrontal cortex sets...