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Teagan P.
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Silence can quite literally grow the brain.
Research found that two hours of silence daily led to the development of new cells in the hippocampus, a key brain region associated with learning, memory and emotion.
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Karl Murphy
@karlmph
Many studies link noise pollution to:
Just as noise pollution is bad for you, silence can actually benefit you...
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Silence helps activate our brain to work better and jog its memory banks efficiently.
Zachary
@zachary56
It increases blood pressure, increases stress, disturbs our sleep.
And more importantly, it is linked to our bad mental health. It's why we don't have schools in the vicinity of airport...
Silence is more relaxing than relaxing music.
In an experiment, the silence was used as a control between the different relaxing music clips. But the two-minute silent pauses between the music actually proved more relaxing on the brain.
Vincent Robin
@vincent_robin
Most of the city planning is done so that the affluent neighborhoods are in quieter areas.
However, this is also nullified when the ultra-rich who travel frequently stay close to the transit hubs (like Airports), being exposed to high decibels of noise.
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