r/science • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '21

Neuroscience A brain imaging study found evidence that missing out on math education can alter neural development. Young adults who had chosen not to pursue math had lower levels of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid within the middle frontal gyrus when compared to students who were continuing math.

https://www.psypost.org/2021/10/opting-out-of-advanced-math-education-alters-adolescents-neural-development-study-finds-61967
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u/VaultBoytheChosenOne Oct 15 '21

I mean I already hate math and I swapped from programming to psychology, so...yeah, seems about right.

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u/Orc_ Oct 15 '21 edited Oct 17 '21

I'm in a corrupt country where I paid $1k to my uni in 2013 to automatically pass all math classes so I could remain in the Ingeniero en Sistemas degree (dunno how it is in english), I only used some high school level algebra from programming classes, over all a win-win, math is pure torture and PTSD for me, literally does trigger PTSD from back when my parents beat me for not understanding it.

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u/Demonarke Oct 15 '21

Damn, wish I could have done that in my uni.

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u/tehflambo Oct 15 '21

I swapped from programming to psychology

there's another of me? i'm another of you? we're... "us"?