Is Athleticism Linked to Brain Size - Article Example

A 3D reconstruction of the brain of a mouse is also presented alongside the article to provide the readers with a visual idea of the location and size of the midbrain of a regular mouse.

The author has also incorporated the comments of the professors involved in the research project to make the article more interesting and additional information is also provided to the reader along with the personal opinion of the experts. They have quoted professor Garland saying that it is the first study that has shown a particular mammalian behavior resulting “in a change in the size of a specific brain region” (Science Daily).

As the reader goes further, the author has provided more important details of the experiment such as the selection of the mice which has been going on for 65 generations in the lab (20 years), and the functioning of different parts of the brain. This section of the article answers any questions that might have occurred in the mind of the reader and deals and deals with them one at a time. From the sample selection to the procedure adopted by the researchers to reach conclusions, they briefly explain them all in easy language. Other findings of the research are also mentioned toward the end of the article including how the high voluntary wheel-running mice also had a larger volume of non-cerebellar brain mass.

The article also mentions what the researchers wanted to achieve through these experiments and whether or not they have been successful. To provide a concise answer to these questions, they have provided yet another direct quotation of the researcher himself explaining that they have found evidence that exercise-loving mice do have an enlarged brain non-cerebellar brain mass and midbrain, but there is no difference in the overall brain mass, which is the support of the mosaic theory of brain evolution.

The author ends the article with another direct quotation of the researcher explaining the future implications of the study concerning the structure of the human brain. Though it is written in the article that future implications are “unclear” the quote by the researcher suggests that the study can be applied to humans by studying the MRIs of infants and then comparing it with the brain structure at different developmental stages.