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 […]

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