How Team Sports Change A Child`s Brain


Garrett Leonard

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  • By : Garrett Leonard
Abstract
Adult depression has long been associated with shrinkage of the hippocampus, a brain region that plays an important role in memory and response to stress. Now, new research has linked participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in children and less depression in boys ages 9 to 11
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Adult Depression shrinkage hippocampus brain region important memory response stress research participation team sports hippocampal volumes children boys ages
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