{"id":108625,"date":"2020-06-13T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/night-owls-have-more-grey-matter-in-their-brains-than-early-birds"},"modified":"2020-06-13T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T01:26:10","slug":"night-owls-have-more-grey-matter-in-their-brains-than-early-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/night-owls-have-more-grey-matter-in-their-brains-than-early-birds","title":{"rendered":"Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/night-owls-have-more-grey-matter-in-their-brains-than-early-birds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being a late-riser suggests you could have more grey matter in your brain, a study from Brunel University London has shown.<\/p>\n<p>A new survey of thousands of MRI scans revealed that people with a preference for waking up in the late hours of one morning, and going to bed in the early hours of the next, are likely to have a higher volume of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/grey+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">grey matter<\/a> in their precuneus, a key area of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/social+behaviour\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">social behaviour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previous studies have shown that lower volumes of grey matter are associated with how empathetic or cooperative a person is, traits that scientists have also previously found correlate with being an early bird, suggesting such personality traits could be underpinned by a physical signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a late-riser suggests you could have more grey matter in your brain, a study from Brunel University London has shown. A new survey of thousands of MRI scans revealed that people with a preference for waking up in the late hours of one morning, and going to bed in the early hours of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}