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No. Actually, the opposite should happen - by thinking, you strain certain cells, which then react by developing more synapses with other cells.

Unused brain cells will degenerate synapses and eventually die.

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brain cells die all the time, it is almost impossible to tell if they die when you stop thinking.


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