Dehydration alters human brain shape and activity, slackens task performance
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 09:00
in Psychology & Sociology
When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and doing monotonous tasks can get harder. With the help of brain scans and a simple, repetitive task to test responsiveness, exercise physiologists at the Georgia Institute of Technology studied volunteer subjects who sweated a lot and did not hydrate. The fluid […]