{"id":354,"date":"2013-04-26T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindykuzma.wordpress.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2013-04-26T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T14:56:37","slug":"the-unexpected-thing-making-you-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"The Unexpected Thing Making You Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/4-column-666px-wide\/wp_import\/105937004-e1366662983706-300x274.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"195\" \/>Sweaty palms could make you smart. In a new study in the\u00a0journal <em>eLife<\/em>, rats that endured a single episode of mild stress (a few hours of physical restraint) produced new neurons in a brain region called the hippocampus. Two weeks later, rats with these bonus brain cells performed better on a rodent memory test (yes, there are such things). <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/147P5Jb\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article in Men&#8217;s Health News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweaty palms could make you smart. In a new study in the\u00a0journal eLife, rats that endured a single episode of mild stress (a few hours of physical restraint) produced new neurons in a brain region called the hippocampus. Two weeks later, rats with these bonus brain cells performed better on a rodent memory test (yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,96,165,188],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-health","tag-brain","tag-health","tag-psychology","tag-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}