A new study shows that elite athletes have less 'noisy' brains than the rest of us, a sign of better brain health.
Neurobiologist Nina Kraus can. At her lab at Northwestern University called"Brainvolts," she and her colleagues can attach a series of electrodes to your scalp and record the electricity your brain produces in response to a sound.A 'blue zones' diet: Live longer from what you eat"I can then take that electricity and play it out through a speaker and we can listen to your brain to see how well it does that job," Kraus said.
I would like to see if can repeat this across multiple different universities and then segregate out the non-contact versus contact sports, such as soccer versus badminton."A tough job for the brainThe new study is part of a five-year analysis of the neural processing of sound in sports concussions, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Launched last year, the research will follow the brain health of 495 Northwestern student athletes and 493 age- and sex-matched control students.
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