{"id":168208,"date":"2023-07-24T04:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/century-old-paradigm-overturned-brain-shape-matters-more-than-neural-connectivity"},"modified":"2023-07-24T04:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:23:53","slug":"century-old-paradigm-overturned-brain-shape-matters-more-than-neural-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/century-old-paradigm-overturned-brain-shape-matters-more-than-neural-connectivity","title":{"rendered":"Century-Old Paradigm Overturned \u2014 Brain Shape Matters More Than Neural Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/century-old-paradigm-overturned-brain-shape-matters-more-than-neural-connectivity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over a hundred years, scientists have held the belief that our thoughts, feelings, and dreams are shaped by the way various brain regions interact via a vast network of trillions of cellular connections.<\/p>\n<p>However, a recent study led by the team at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/monash-university\/\">Monash University\u2019s<\/a> Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health has examined more than 10,000 distinct maps of human brain activity and discovered that the overall shape of an individual\u2019s brain has a much more substantial impact on our cognitive processes, emotions, and behavior than its intricate neuronal connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The study, recently published in the prestigious journal, <em>Nature<\/em> draws together approaches from physics, neuroscience, and psychology to overturn the century-old paradigm emphasizing the importance of complex brain connectivity, instead identifying a previously unappreciated relationship between brain shape and activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a hundred years, scientists have held the belief that our thoughts, feelings, and dreams are shaped by the way various brain regions interact via a vast network of trillions of cellular connections. However, a recent study led by the team at Monash University\u2019s Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health has examined more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168208","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}