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I was doing some research on the brain because I was curious as to how information were being processed in the brain on a complex scale, I found a research conducted this year as to how that is achieved.

First of all what is the human brain all about?

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The Brain

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The brain is an organ, one which controls an entire system. In the classification of things from cell ---> system which makes up an organism, we have them as:

• Cell: It is the smallest unit of life.
• Tissue: It is a group of cells which form together to perform a definite function.
• Organ: This is also a group of tissues which perform specialized tasks. For example the brain.
• System: This comprises of cells, tissues and organs which form a network to achieve certain processes or tasks in an organism.

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The essence of this quick run through was to give a quick insight towards where this is headed. The brain is so complicated, that it is perhaps the most complicated organ (according to www.livescience.com), as virtually all activities in the body depends on it.

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The brain forms a network of billions of connected neurons which makes it even more unique and adept to handling the processes of other activities in the body.

From simple things like homeostasis to complex things, this organ upstairs is responsible for ensuring nothing goes wrong.

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The main business of today is a research I stumbled upon about how the brain swells each time new information is acquired and how it processes it over time.

It sounded weird when I heard about the swelling bit and I had to dig into it as I was initially scared s to the very thought of my brain expanding.

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How new information is processed

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It is fairly common knowledge the stress shrinks the brain...well brain cells, as the brain does not really shrink in the manner we are perceiving it.

Now a group of researchers led by Elisabeth Wenger, decided to research how new information is processed/handled by the brain.

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The research was conducted at the center for lifespan psychology at the max planck institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.

This was done over a fairly long period of time to get results with a high accuracy of certainty,

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It was discovered that upon the acquisition of new information or skills, the brain actually swells for a while, upon which it shrinks significantly, not to it original size, but a reasonable extent after sifting through what information it really needs.

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I once did some reading on the brain where I read that no knowledge is ever lost once you come in contact with such information. Something as little as a smudge on a painting which we might have noticed subconsciously will be stored somewhere in our brain for retrieval someday under the right condition and I believe that is what hypnosis takes advantage of in therapy.

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The swelling can also be a reason why the size of our brain increases as we grow from infancy to adulthood since we acquire new information daily.

This research also makes it known that people who work in certain areas which have access to massive inflow if information will most have more swelling than others who have little or no access.

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She (Wenger) also explained how the magnetic resonance imaging devices used will be fine tuned to achieve greater and more accurate results.

In my opinion, I believe this experiment proves that anyone can become smart by constantly trying to access new information as no one is actually dull.

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For more information about the research, read more here

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Thanks to @camzy and @elyaque for the animated art and badge

Images from pixabay

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