Dehydration alters human brain shape and activity, slackens task performance

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Sweating up a storm gardening? This is what your brain might be doing: Reasonably customary dehydration led to shape changes inside the brains of test persons in a new study. Neuronal activity also got busier and broader. The subjects' average performance of a motor task also slipped markedly.
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