Brain Fitness in Valentine’s Day

In a ten-week study in The New York, the researchers worked with 53 couples. They pay a third of them spend 90 minutes a week doing familiar things, but fun, like going to a dinner or a movie. Researchers assigned one third to 90 minutes to spend on something exciting that both appreciated to do. The group spent time doing new things or things they do not often done. This last group has no specific instructions.

After the study was completed, researchers interviewed couples to the quality of their relationships to assess. Couples who spent time doing new things higher scores than the other two groups.

This is all common sense. The more exciting thing you do together, the more your relationship to get. But it is interesting to look at the brains of the underlying science, because it affects your overall brain fitness as well.

The brains receive new things. New experiences opening a reward system of the brains, especially by the “pleasure” of the signal, dopamine. This same circuit is very active in the beginning of the intense romantic relationship. So the theory is that making new, exciting things together can literally help stimulate brain circuits romance reader.

We are promoting various intervention in daily routines, both for your brains in shape for some time. Besides improving your various relationships, it also helps you build new brain connections that are good for all types of brain function.

Your brains is a network of nearly 100 trillion connections between the 100 billion neurons. When we do new things and learn new things, increases the level of connectivity, not only in your circuits pleasure, but also in other parts of your brain.

Increasing the connectivity between neurons in parts of the brains responsible for memory, decision making and creative thinking, is very beneficial for your brains fitness long term. The more connections you make, the more resistance you have against cognitive decline with age.

Think of an old tree with many branches. This is a kind of see what neurons. The more you learn from experience new things, the bushier the neuron receives connections and the more it can do. In fact, neuroscientists used occupational posterization “of the word, which means that a tree-like appearance, set the quantity of the branches of a neuron.

The extent of occupational posterization is an indicator of the health of cells, particularly in areas of the brains associated with learning and memory. Although we can not directly measure occupational posterization in humans, studies in rodents show that those with new environments on a regular basis more arbo posterization of neurons involved in memory.

What we can do in people’s brain to use technology to the new level of activity in brain areas, which has some correlation with the degree of connectivity and neuronal OH posterization in animal studies has to determine.

These brain scans show that people technologies in the long term, quality relationships increased brain activity in their pleasure centers when shown a photo of their spouse. Researchers believe that new experiences to engage in marriage is something that helps in maintaining these links.

Valentine’s Day not only visiting your favorite restaurant, try a new one. Or go out and do something you both enjoy, but do not get the chance very often. It will be good for parts of your brains that help your mind young and your relationship.