The argument put forth by this Huffington Post piece from October 2012 is that that people who daven have greater brain activity. Originally aired on the "Through the Wormhole" and narrated by Morgan Freeman, the study pushes the idea that the tefilla experience (even just mediation) causes a neurologically experience that stimulates the brain more so than those who do not daven. This is good news but not something that I would personally use to motivate my students as I remember a study that argued doing a crossword puzzles daily prevents a person's mental decline with age.
This does remind me of an obscure article I read that argued that the tefillin is used on specific acupuncture points that causes mental clarity. I will leave it the readers to decide on the usefulness of these studies. (H/T @szberger on the first article).
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