Would you like to be smarter?
January 19, 2014 Comments Off on Would you like to be smarter?Read more…Young adult rats were either allowed to have sex only once in a two-week period, or every day (Leuner et al., 2010).
What they found was that sex was stressful-the rats had elevated levels of stress hormones-but sex also promoted brain cell growth.
The rats that had been having sex for two weeks displayed neurogenesis: the process by which neurons are generated from stem cells in the brain.