A work-life balance benefits your brain

A balanced life leads to a healthier brain, with a lower risk of stroke and dementia (such as Alzheimer’s disease.

On the other hand, some people grind away at their job to the exclusion of all else. MRI studies reveal working too hard for too long might result in volume loss in the prefrontal cortex (area that controls motivation and decision making), atrophy in the dorsal striatum (caudate and putamen nuclei (areas that modify movement) and hippocampus (an area involved in emotion and memory), but an increased volume of tissue in the amygdalae (the emotional hub of the brain).

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