Brain Scans Show Cognitive Benefits of Exercise Over Time
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Brain Scans Show Cognitive Benefits of Exercise Over Time
In new work presented this week about the effects of exercise on the brain, researchers found that brain changes that occur after a single workout are predictive of what happens with sustained physical training over time. Just as in training for a marathon, individual running workouts add up over time to yield a big improvement in physical fitness. So it should not be surprising that the cognitive benefits from workouts also accumulate to yield long-term cognitive gains. The new study, presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual conference in San Francisco, fills a research void by quantifying the underlying neurobiology associated with how exercise enhances brain health. "There is a strong and direct link between physical activity and how your brain works," said Dr. Wendy Suzuki of New York University (NYU. "People still do not link physical health to brain and cognitive health; they think about fitting into a bikini or losing that last pound, not about all the brain
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