Divorce Brain Fog | Dr. Sydney Ceruto — MindLAB Neuroscience

Divorce Brain Fog: Why You Can’t Think Clearly When the Decisions Matter Most Divorce brain fog is cortisol-mediated cognitive impairment — the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus progressively suppressed by months of HPA-axis activation during exactly the window when the brain needs to track legal terms, financial spreadsheets, and custody schedules. The fog is not weakness. It is the specific neural signature of sustained adversarial stress. ...

April 19, 2026 · 21 min · 4376 words · Dr. Sydney Ceruto