Rats Also Go Stupid Right When The TSHTF....

[cronus]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 144025.htm

In unstable times, the brain reduces cell production to help cope

A new study found that adult rats with disruptions in their social hierarchy produced far fewer new neurons, and reacted to the surrounding upheaval by favoring the company of familiar rats. The research is among the first to show that adult brain-cell growth, or neurogenesis, shapes social behavior and adaptation, and that responses to instability may be more measured than scientists have come to expect.

A Princeton University and National Institutes of Health study suggests that our response to stressful situations originates from structural changes in our brain that allows us to adapt to turmoil. Adult rats with disruptions in their social hierarchy produced far fewer new neurons in the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for certain types of memory and stress regulation. They also reacted to the disruption by favoring the company of familiar rats. Their behavior manifested six weeks after social disruption, during which time brain-cell growth, or neurogenesis, had decreased by 50 percent.

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[JimC]

I also favour the company of familiar Ratz!

[Svartalf]

I also favour the company of familiar Ratz!

Got cheez?

[laklak]

Or bacon?