Managers Have Bigger Brains?

RESPONSIBLE for arranging and overseeing others, as well as the duties of a manager, it triggers the structural changes in the brain, protecting memory and learning abilities into old age.

Researchers University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia, for the first time, identify a clear relationship between managerial experience, integrity, and the size of the hippocampus (a brain area responsible for learning and memory) is greater than at age 80.

"We found a significant correlation between the responsibilities of overseeing several employees and the size of the hippocampus," said Dr Michael Valenzuela, the leader of Regenerative Neuroscience at UNSW,

This can be attributed to the unique mental demands of the responsibilities of managing the people who need the ability to solve problems, short-term memory, and emotional intelligence, such as the ability to put yourself in someone else's. We were trying to translate it all into structural brain changes we observed, "

The resulting findings confirm that active mentally improve brain health, potentially counteracting the neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.