Social Butterfly? Larger Brain!
She’s no ditz! In fact, that social butterfly we love to rib, may indeed have a brain… and larger than others!
It’s the amygdala, no less.
Brain scans of 58 volunteers in a preliminary study conducted at Northeastern University in Boston, indicated that the bigger the amygdala, which is at the center of a brain network integral for socializing, the more friends and family the volunteers reported seeing regularly.
But does having a bigger amygdala lead to more friends, or does socializing with a lot of friends create a bigger amygdala?
Next study, my friends!
