Friday, January 29, 2010

Proper rest makes brain more active



Whatever may be the advancements in the medical world, brain is still an enigma and hence, lots of rumors and certainly speculations do revolve around the same. Do you know why at times we fail to remember most common things? Learn the answer from here. As stated by a panel of eminent researchers, it may be that you or any concerned person or even we think of the same too often. Do you find any difference? You may since this is the age that doesn’t believe that an idle mind is a devil’s workshop.

Lots of changes are happening almost at each moment and more are still to come; hence, it is the time for you to look at those that have remained unnoticed thus far. So long scientists used to concentrate on volunteers in action, appraising their physiological or biochemical responses as they completed specific mental tasks. However, a sea change has occurred recently and the credit in this regard goes to the proliferation of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), accurately maps brain activity founded on changes in blood-oxygen levels. With the help of it neuroscientists have concluded that crucial activity in the brain — connected specifically to memory and learning — may crop up when it is at rest.

Is this study any wonder? Perhaps not since copious numbers of studies over the past decade have made it clear that sleep is exceedingly important to the consolidation of memories and learning; what is more, people who take a nap after learning a new task, for instance, remember it better in contrast to people who don't have forty winks.

Now as per as the novel study from the lab of New York University (NYU) cognitive neuroscientist Lila Davachi, there is akin evidence that the brain at rest, even while remaining awake, is conducting significant action. In short, the scientist suggests that certain forms of brain activity actually augment during waking rest and are associated with better memory consolidation.

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