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Climate change events may soon start affecting your brain functioning: Study
Updated On: 31 December, 2023 08:00 PM IST | London | IANS
The paper also explores the role that neuroscience can play in influencing the way we think about climate change, our judgments and how we respond
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Increasing extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, droughts, and hurricanes, and associated forest fires and floods caused by global warming may impact our brain function in the future, finds an alarming study.
In the new study, teams from the universities of Geneva, New York, Chicago, Washington, Stanford, Exeter in the UK and the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, said that climate change events may change brain structure, function, and overall health, while calling for more research to evaluate how this may explain changes in well-being and behaviour.
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