I’m
brain-damaged.
This will come to no surprise to many of you who read this blog. As a result of my initial surgery, follow-up surgeries and treatments, my brain performance was, well, worse than pre-brain tumor.
This will come to no surprise to many of you who read this blog. As a result of my initial surgery, follow-up surgeries and treatments, my brain performance was, well, worse than pre-brain tumor.
As a result, I’m continually looking for ways to improve my thought process, my brain power
and my ability to cogitate (assuming these are all different things).
So,
you shouldn’t be surprised that I am keenly interested in a recent article entitled
“Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?” written by the wonderful
Gretchen Reynolds: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2016/02/17/which-type-of-exercise-is-best-for-the-brain/
The
article reprises research conducted by researchers at the University of
Jyvaskyla in Finland which studied the impact of different kinds of exercise on
the brains of mice. Here’s what I believe to be the most revealing quote of the
article: “Those rats that had jogged on wheels
showed robust levels of neurogenesis. Their hippocampal tissue teemed with new
neurons, far more than in the brains of the sedentary animals. The greater the
distance that a runner had covered during the experiment, the more new cells
its brain now contained.”
Reynolds goes on to write that “Obviously, rats
are not people. But the implications of these findings are provocative. They
suggest, said Miriam Nokia, a research fellow at the University of Jyvaskyla
who led the study, that ‘sustained aerobic exercise might be most beneficial
for brain health also in humans.’”
Before
you start training for a marathon, however, I suggest that you read her entire
article.
And
here’s a link to the abstract in the “The Journal of Physiology” - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP271552/abstract
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