How heat affects our brain….

We talk regularly about the best temperatures for our minds (about 70 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit (depending on your clothes, what you’re doing, etc.) , with 40 to 70% humidity, as reviewed here), but conditions outdoors frequently deviate from those best-for-our-mental-performance bands. Hence, Dana Smith’s recent article in The New York Times (2024, “How Heat Affects the Brain,” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/well/mind/heat-affect-brain-emotions.html) which pretty effectively reviews the consequences of too-hot heads. As she details “High temperatures can have an alarming effects on our…

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