Probably you’ve all experienced the strange sensation that you had stayed in place, life became boring and bland, I want something to change — at least to glue Wallpaper and move the furniture, but it is better to fall from their homes and immediately hit the road. As a rule, the mere anticipation of the journey the mood is already improving and it’s not self-hypnosis.
researchers from the universities of Miami and new York during the three months track the movement of more than one hundred participants in the experiment. The volunteers were daily noted in the diary of your moods. And in those days, when they were in new places, all of them mentioned splex positive emotions.
Scientists also conducted magnetic resonance brain scans of the participants to determine changes in blood flow to different areas of the brain, which is a measure of aktivnosti these areas. People who have while traveling mood more varied the better, and showed more close relationship between the two brain areas — the striatum (or so-called striped body) and the hippocampus. This functional relationship indicates active processing of new information and the activation of the reward mechanism.
More carefully (after all, in the living human brain no digging will not give), scientists have studied this process on the example of laboratory rats (and we are with you in this sense, differ little from those clever rodents), confirming that traveling and discovering new places make us happier.
