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HTTP:: Complex Tasks Increase Brain Power
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A new scientific study has demonstrated that people engaging in complex tasks experience a significant increase in brain power, as well as a reshaping of some of the circuitry at work in the cortex. The science team, based at the Oxford University, reported the find in the latest issue of the respected journal Nature Neuroscience, the BBC News informs. The investigation revealed that people undertaking complex tasks exhibited a white-matter increase of up to five percent, over a period of just six weeks. The type of nerve cells making up white matter is usually involved in the “wiring” part of the brain, which is to say that it plays a crucial role in supporting neurons and synapses. In order to rule out any possibility for error, the scientists took brain scans of all participants before and after the study began. This is among the first researches to demonstrate increases in white matter. Previous studies have shown that gray matter, the headquarters of the brain'!
s cognitive powers, can, indeed, increase in volume, but this was never accurately proven available for white matter. In their investigation, scientists from the Oxford Department of Clinical Neurology used an imaging technique known as diffusion MRI, in order to assess the movements of water molecules in the brain's cells. &l...
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