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According to new research, petting dogs boosts neurons in the pre-frontal cortex which helps regulate emotional interactions. Actions such as seeing, feeling, and touching a dog makes someone more calm and sociable.
Dogs often help cope with depression and stress.
“The present study demonstrates that prefrontal brain activity in healthy subjects increased with a rise in interactional closeness with a dog or a plush animal, but especially in contact with the dog the activation is stronger. This indicates that interactions with a dog might activate more attentional processes and elicit stronger emotional arousal than comparable nonliving stimuli” said the study authors.
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