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Is Too Much Mental Effort Tired You Out?
Researchers at the paris brain institute are used a technique called ma etic resin and spectroscope. And this can tell you levels of chemicals inside living tissue without harming it. They scanned people's brains as they lay inside the scanner, either doing six hours of a quite a difficult memory task. It made me feel tired just to read about it, wason six hours, it was awful, or the same task, but an easy aversion of it for a comparison. With the harder task, that required more concentration, there was more of a build up of a chemical in the brain called glutinate. This is actually the main neuro transmitter used in the brain. So it's not hugely
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