Recently, Nature Neuroscience published a review titled "Be smart, exercise your heart:exercise effects on brain and cognition" by Hillman et al. It is an excellent overview of the science of 'your brain on exercise'. The research that the group gathered is multi-disciplinary, including epidemiological, molecular, animal, and human studies. Some interesting findings include:
1. Aerobic capacity and academic achievement is positively correlated in school-age children.
2. In older adults, cognitive ability is greatly increased in response to aerobic exercise training. Even total brain volume increases with exercise!
3. Animal studies on exercising rodents show increased cell proliferation (division and growth) in the 'memory center' of the brain, known as the hippocampus.
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Neurobiology of exercise
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