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Your Brain Actually Works Better in Winter, According to Science

"Maybe the cold helps to create the good?"

Science offers some consolation despite the terrible weather - winter actually does your brain and mood no harm.

By Jessica StillmanContributor, Inc.com
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February is basically no one's favorite month. By now, most of us are well and truly sick of winter, yet winter is far from done, continuing to torture us with nose-freezing temperatures and super short days.

Given how unpleasant the weather can be, it makes sense to conclude that the season is only good for ski buffs and hibernation. Winter, many of us suspect, makes us moody, sluggish .. https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/3-ways-to-stay-active-during-the-winter-months.html , and generally unproductive.

Science, however, has come to far different conclusions about the season. As a cheerfully well timed post from New York Magazine's Science of Us blog points out, there's no shortage of research that shows winter is not only not depressing, it might actually make our brains work better .. http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/02/debunking-the-myth-of-the-winter-blues.html?mid=full-rss-scienceofus .

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