Girls With Anxiety Have Harder Working Brains

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Article Date: 08 Jun 2012 12:00 PDT</p>

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Researchers during Michigan State University have found that smarts of concerned girls work significantly harder than smarts of boys when put in stressful situations. The investigate is published in a International Journal of Psychophysiology.</p>

<p>The researchers enrolled 79 womanlike students and 70 masculine students to attend in a investigate in sequence to magnitude a association between worrying and error-related mind responses. Study participants were asked to figure out a center minute in a organisation of 5 letters while their mind activity was totalled by an electrode cap. Sometimes a center minute was a same (FFFFF) and infrequently it differed (EEFEE). The researchers afterwards asked participants to finish a con...