Can playing table tennis, better known as “ping pong,” lead to significant improvements in brain structure and function? New research published in the journal Brain Research suggests it can. Researchers discovered that table tennis players exhibit distinct patterns of brain activity and structural changes in the brain, including increased white matter integrity in regions associated with motor skills. Table tennis is one of the world’s fastest open-skill sports, demanding players to quickly track and respond to the ball’s trajectory. This requires high levels of cognitive functions such as dec…