The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books, researchers will say this

week.

       Scientists, psychologists and English academics at Liverpool University have found that reading the works of the Bard and other classical writers has 

a beneficial effect on the mind, catches the reader’s attention and triggers moments of self-reflection.

       Using scanners, they monitored the brain activity of volunteers as they read works by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, T.S Eliot and others.

They then “translated” the texts into more “straightforward”, modern language and again monitored the readers’ brains as they read the words.

Scans showed that the more “challenging” prose and poetry set off far more electrical activity in the brain than the more pedestrian versions.

Scientists were able to study the brain activity as it responded to each word and record how it “lit up” as the readers encountered unusual words,

surprising phrases or difficult sentence structure.

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