The Brain Grows With Practice…and Then Shrinks Back to Normal.

If you prac­tice biceps curls at the gym, you will get big­ger mus­cles that are also stronger. So far, the same seemed true for the brain. Thanks to neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, prac­tice trig­gers neu­ronal and synap­tic growth (i.e., brain vol­ume growth), which cor­re­lates with bet­ter per­for­mance. In this fas­ci­nat­ing Sci­en­tif­ic Amer­i­can arti­cle we learn that as the…

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