Dehydration Alters Human Brain Shape and Activity, Slackens Task Performance

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 07:40 in Psychology & Sociology

Sweating up a storm doing yard work? This is what your brain might be doing: Reasonably customary dehydration led to shape changes in the brains of test subjects in a new study. And neuronal firing patterns got nosier. The subjects' average performance of a motor task also slipped markedly.

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