Run with a friend for better brain
15 March 2006
by Richard Conan-Davies
| Running with a friend is better for your brain than running alone according to a study by Princeton Univeristy researchers. The BBC reports on a study in Nature Neuroscience that studied the stress hormones in rats that exercised alone or in a group. The studied also found that the mice forced to live and run by themselves had less brain cell growth than those that get to run with other rats. The research led by Dr Elizabeth Gould explained in her article that "In the absence of social interaction, a normally beneficial experience can exert a potentially deleterious influence on the brain."
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