Not exact matches
Not only will you improve your physical
fitness, but you'll also give your
brain an added boost: One study
found that taking walk breaks during the workday can help people reduce stress and improve their motivation.
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The
findings are the first to indicate that aerobic
fitness may relate to the structure and function of the preadolescent human
brain.
Researchers have
found an association between physical
fitness and the
brain in 9 - and 10 - year - old children: Those who are more fit tend to have a bigger hippocampus and perform better on a test of memory than their less - fit peers.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and
Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig
found out that the new
fitness technology called Jymmin makes us less sensitive to pain.
After factors such as diet, education, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and hypertension were statistically controlled to isolate the effect of exercise, the team
found a clear correlation between greater
fitness and greater
brain - tissue density.
But researchers have
found that cardiovascular
fitness helps keep
brain cells alive and well.
The
findings, which appear online in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, are the first to show a relationship between
fitness and
brain structure in older adults, but not younger adults.
The researchers
found cardiorespiratory
fitness was positively linked to the structural integrity of white matter fiber bundles in the
brain in the older adults, while no such association was observed in younger adults.
Previously, Dr. Mosconi
founded and was the director of the Nutrition &
Brain Fitness Lab at New York University School of Medicine (NYU) and an assistant professor in the NYU Department of Psychiatry, where she served as the director of the Family History of Alzheimer's disease research program.
The researchers
found stronger connections between different regions of the
brain in people with higher levels of cardiorespiratory
fitness.
Find out how important it is to have a balance of having the perfect amount of
fitness, movement and activity and using your
brain to get a deeper quality sleep, as well as know the right balance of foods to eat to help achieve that restful night sleep.
«This message may be especially important for people with heart disease or at risk for heart disease, in which we
found an even stronger relationship between
fitness and
brain aging.»
«We
found that poor physical
fitness in midlife was linked to more rapid
brain aging two decades later,» study author Nicole Spartano, a postdoctoral fellow at the Boston University School of Medicine said of the research.