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Every time you tighten your core muscles, your brain gently sways inside your skull — and scientists just discovered it activates memory circuits

Your brain is not bolted in place. It floats in a thin bath of cerebrospinal fluid, and every time you take a step, your abdominal muscles squeeze hard enough to nudge it. That is the central, ...
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The Surprising Way Your Core Muscles Communicate With Your Brain

But this study suggests that circulation is also influenced by mechanical forces originating elsewhere in the body. As ...
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Rethinking recurrent brain activity: Core neurons provide an alternative explanation

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain, is now known to be ...
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Engaging the core could regulate blood flow in the brain

Engaging core muscles—through movement, exercise or even coughing—may be a key regulator of blood flow in the brain. When the body moves, the contraction of abdominal muscles increases pressure in ...