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The Brain as a Neural NetworkHow Neurogenol® can turn mental cacophony into a finely tuned orchestraAccording to the “neural efficiency” theory of IQ, superior cognitive performance results from the individual’s capacity to selectively activate the neural networks required for the task while simultaneously inhibiting the networks that are not relevant to the cognitive task at hand. This selective activation or inhibition can be detected using neuroimaging techniques.Neuroimaging showed that those people in the clinical trial using Enzogenol® pine bark extract were able to selectively inhibit the neural processes that were not required for the cognitive task. The people in the control group, who were only taking vitamin C, were not able to achieve this effect.  This inhibitory effect is known as cortical decoupling. It is quite like a targeted noise reduction in your brain, and leads to increased concentration levels and accurate decision making in the cognitive tasks. The pharmaceutical drug Methylphenidate (Ritalin®) shows a similar effect in people with attention deficits, but works in a much less supple way than the Enzogenol and can cause numerous side effects. In other words Neurogenol® supports and enhances the underlying processes associated with concentration and accurate decision making. |