Did you know that introvert and extrovert have different structure of brain?

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December 08, 2018

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We see many people around us some of them are extroverts while some are introverts but did you know that they actually have different structure of brain ,to know more continue reading the article -

Before going any further we'll see what are introverts and what are extroverts:

Introverts: a person predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things.

Extrovert: a person predominantly concerned with external things or objective considerations.

Research completed over several decades has shown that the brains of introverts and extroverts are activated differently depending on their circumstances, and it has a lot to do with dopamine, a neurotransmitter that controls the brain's reward and pleasure systems.

Common knowledge dictates that introverts are quieter and tend to feel more energized from spending time alone, while extroverts are louder and gain reinforcement and energy from being with others. Extroverts often exhibit qualities of charm, charisma, and persuasion, while introverts tend to be creative and prefer to work alone.

Randy Buckner of Harvard University discovered that introverts tended to have larger, thicker gray matter in their prefrontal cortex — a region of the brain that is linked to abstract thought and decision-making — while extroverts had less gray matter. Buckner concluded that this might be accountable for introverts’ tendencies to sit in a corner and ponder things thoroughly before making a decision, and extroverts’ ability to live in the moment and take risks without fully thinking everything through (which has its cons and benefits, of course).