By Mark Waghorn Petting dogs makes people more sociable, reveals new research. Watching, feeling, and touching boosts neurons in the pre-frontal cortex – the area of the brain that helps regulate emotional interactions. The findings have implications for animal-assisted clinical therapy. Dogs help people cope with stress and depression, so shedding light on the phenomenon could lead to the development […]
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