Your Brain Changes Based on What You Did Two Weeks Ago | A workout or restless night from two weeks ago could still be affecting you—positively or negatively—today.
https://www.newsweek.com/brain-changes-neuroscience-exercise-sleep-health-two-weeks-1965107
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From the article: our behavior today could affect your brain activity in two weeks’ time, [new research](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002797) suggests. These findings have significant implications for our mental health as well as our attention, cognition and memory.
“The effect of your daily choices is not only reflected in today’s brain connectivity,” Ana Triana, a researcher at Aalto University in Finland and the study’s lead author, told Newsweek. “Consistently making healthy choices in their daily lives can have a long-lasting positive effect on their mental health. These habits directly influence brain connectivity in regions associated with attention, memory, and cognitive function.”
Our behavior and our brains are intimately linked. And yet, the majority of studies only take a snapshot of our lived experience. “We know little about the response of brain functional connectivity to environmental, physiological, and behavioral changes on different timescales, from days to months,” Triana said.
Is it the assumption that things like a bad night’s sleep, maybe stress, are basically causing minor brain trauma that takes a while to repair?
What if a bad night’s sleep is followed the next day with a good session of exercise that gets the heart and lungs pumping? Even-steven?
With this assumption I’m still making up for poor decisions from before the turn of the century.
They didn’t check more than two weeks out? Just wondering how this applies to the old three weeks to make a change rule. As far as I know, that has not been substantiated, so does this mean that two weeks time is enough to change
a habit? Or that any change in lifestyle in diet, sleep, exercise etc., has to be at least two weeks or longer?
Well, that’s good news for me since I’ve been accumulating restless, sleepless nights since I left the military ten years ago. I’ve collected almost every edition of them. *Ralphie I’m in danger at the back of the school bus gif*
“Could” is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence