07/08/2017
By:Scott NERDbody Eriksson
Do Not Forget This!
Regular exercise improves memory and thinking skills
Harvard Medical School... Many studies have suggested that the parts of the brain that control thinking and memory (the prefrontal cortex and medial temporal cortex) have greater volume in people who exercise versus people who don’t. “Even more exciting is the finding that engaging in a program of regular exercise of moderate intensity over six months or a year is associated with an increase in the volume of selected brain regions,” says Dr. Scott McGinnis, a neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor in neurology at Harvard Medical School.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/regular-exercise-changes-brain-improve-memory-thinking-skills-201404097110
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/regular-exercise-changes-brain-improve-memory-thinking-skills-201404097110
National Center For Biotechnology Information... Older adults were assigned to either a higher or lower physical activity group, and event-related potentials were recorded during assessments of a modified Sternberg task. The results indicated that older adults in the higher physical activity group exhibited shorter response times, independent of the working memory load. Enhanced P3 and N1 amplitudes and a decreased P3 latency were observed in the higher physical activity group. These findings suggested that physical activity facilitates working memory by allocating more attentional resources and increasing the efficiency of evaluating the stimulus during the retrieval phase as well as engaging more attentional resources for the early discriminative processes during the encoding phase of a working memory task.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24308044
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24308044
Journal of Human Kinetics... Specifically, we found that intervention designs in loads of 60–80% 1RM with approximately seven movements in two sets separated by 2 min of rest at least twice per week for 2–12 months (usually 6 months) could positively affect cognition, including information-processing speed, attention, memory formation, and specific types of executive function.
http://journals.humankinetics.com
http://journals.humankinetics.com
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