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Young man playing a video game in a room lit by the television monitor

Risk-takers are smarter, according to a new study

Source: ScienceDaily

Researchers in Finland have found that high-risk-taking participants in a study displayed more white matter, which contains the brain’s neural superhighways. The experiment involved measuring the participants’ brain activity while they played a driving video game.

This entry was posted in Taking Risks and tagged People, Science & Nature on February 1, 2016 by Anita Hacker.

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