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New research is showing that, so long as we follow good, reputable standards of science, they can actually help us see the links between brain structure activity and even some cognitive ability or mental health conditions. Researchers looked at previous studies that found intelligence can be linked to the thickness of the brain's outermost laier. This study had a small sample size. Researchers tried to repeat the findings by looking at a new federal study that scanned thousands of adolescent brains. After analyzing more than one thousand scans, they couldn't replicate the connection between thickness and intelligence. Bigger sample size, different results. So going forward, we need human behavior studies that use thousands of scans in order to make scientifically reliable connections

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