Newsletter 17
Links and Ressources about Autumn (Fall)
There are many factors that affect your mood the weather is an external force that we simply can't control so try your best not to let it affect your state of mind
A new study suggests that changes in the seasons can cause changes in our brain size. researchers compared over 3 000 mri scans and found small but distinct effects.
The cerebellum increases in volume in the summer but decreases in the winter and then when the weather is nicer it's opposite.
What happens in these seasonally breeding birds is that at different times of the year they engage in very different behaviors, and what’s remarkable is that their brain changes in correlation with these changes in behavior.
Many of these changes in the brain are mediated by the action of steroid hormones.
If you prefer reading instead of watching a video, here are a couple of easy to read articles on the subject
How The Falling Autumn Leaves Benefit Our Mind and Body | Well.Org
7 Surprising Things That Happen To Your Body in the Fall | Bicycling
7 Facts That Prove Autumn Has a More Powerful Effect on Our Body Than We Might Think / Bright Side
How Autumn Affects Our Body - Understanding and Cures - YouVeda
A couple of studies
Seasonality in human cognitive brain responses
Seasonal plasticity of cognition and related biological measures in adults