Don't scold people or call them 'dumb' the next time you fail to drag them off the social sites. Chances are they have more of those 'little grey cells' than Hercule Poirot could ever hope to possess. According to a new study, if you have more friends than most, certain parts of your brain tend to get bigger and more grey matter could be growing there.
According to researchers from theUniversity of Oxford, people with bigger social networks often have a different brain pattern, LiveScience reported. For one, there is increased connectivity between the brain regions and such people may have more grey matter in certain brain parts like the temporal parietal junction, the anterior cingulate cortex and the rostral prefrontal cortex. Interestingly, these are part of a network involved in mentalisation - the ability to attribute mental states, thoughts and beliefs to another.
Does it mean these parts of the brain are growing because they have gone into overdrive, 'trying' to cope with 'increased' social activities? We know it sounds like gym - the more the exercise, the better the muscle power.
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