Many people said that juggling is too difficult, requires perfect coordination and surely many hours of practice, but it has many benefits.

According to researchers at the University of Oxford, perform complex tasks such as juggling produce significant changes in brain structure. The study was published in the Journal of Nature Neuroscience.

Apparently, these activities increase by 5% the brain’s white matter (which is where the neurons are concentrated can be the trip of the information transmission speed of nerve signals).

The study had participants who trained for 6 weeks, which made them brain resonances before and after juggling with balls made.

Scientists think this could somehow help people with multiple sclerosis (chronic disease that causes neurons in the brain lose their myelin coating, viability deteriorated much nerve transmission).

The study brings together 24 young adults, none of whom knew how to juggle with balls, were divided into 2 groups, one of the groups were asked to practice 30 minutes each day while the other group remained in their activities normal.

After training, the 12 people who learned to juggle, they could make at least 2 full cycles of the classic game with 3 balls. At the conclusion of 6 weeks, the results of the MRI showed an increase in the white matter of 5% (in the intraparietal sulcus) in this group. This particular area contains nerves that react to achieve, manage and focus on objects that are in the field or edge of peripheral vision.

Such studies show how the brain is able to react to different stimuli and thus learn the same tasks as complex as this. The results could be used for people suffering from chronic diseases like multiple sclerosis.

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