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The researchers recruited 18 people, aged 27 to 70, and asked them about how many people they encountered over the past seven and 30 days. The giam can cho ba bau researchers were trying to determine “social contact,” according to Noonan: “Any phone call, any physical interaction, any email.”

The researchers also scanned the brains of the 18 people and looked for anything that people with similar social lives had in common. They discovered that three parts of the brain appeared to be larger and more strongly connected to other regions of the brain in people who had larger social networks, Noonan said.

The findings reflect previous research that found similarities in the brains of monkeys who lived in larger groups. “This is telling, and perhaps could show some sort of common mechanism across primates,” she noted.

Noonan suspects — but can’t yet prove — that it’s the brain that adjusts to how social people are. “While I have to hedge my bets, I think the brain is able to adapt to all of your current skills and needs,” she explained. “But we’re not able to make the claim that it’s getting bigger or better connected.”

Zak, the neuroeconomist, said it giam can cap toc hieu qua is indeed hard to figure out which comes first — better social skills or certain types of brains. However, “their findings are consistent with studies showing that lonely people have differences in brain volume than non-lonely people,” he said.

Noonan said the next step is to better understand which areas of the brain are crucial to being social.

In the big picture, though, it may be difficult to understand what’s going on because it will be hard to design a study that follows people from a young age and specifically determines how their brains affect their social lives, Zak said. “We are unlikely to have a definitive answer as to how our innate brain structure affects our behavior,” he added.

Still, study lead author Noonan said this kind of research can lead to better understanding of how conditions like autism and schizophrenia disrupt giam can an toan sau sinh people’s abi