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Enter brain fitness, a new healthy - living trend driven not only by the aging population but also by developments in technology and neuroscience.

Unwilling to give up her beloved workout Maanavi leveraged her own inner strength along with her brains and her partner, Lotte Berk expert Tanya Becker to build Physique 57 into a unique and successful fitness company with locations in 4 countries and more than 100 employees.

One of the world's leading cognitive science institutes announced today it has created a new company with MaRS, Canada's premiere innovation centre, to develop and market brain fitness products to help adults extend their memory and cognitive abilities longer in the lifespan.

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.

Previous studies have not examined the interaction between the three factors under investigation in this study — aerobic fitness, mental performance and brain activation.

The group that received all three interventions consistently performed the best, and showed substantial gains in two of the tasks over the group that received cognitive and physical fitness training but did not receive brain stimulation.

The few studies that have incorporated other training modalities, such as physical fitness training or noninvasive brain stimulation, have been small in sample size, short in time or narrow in scope, he said.

Our aim is to explore how physical activity and fitness are linked to academic achievement, cognitive functions, brain properties and executive functions at different ages, both in children and adults.»

Better aerobic fitness however does not appear to impact hippocampal volume, another area in the brain responsible for memory.

Facing the specter of Alzheimer's disease, the most devastating and widespread manifestation of brain deterioration in old age, worried baby boomers have inspired whole catalogs of brain - fitness books and services.

This suggests that exercise training, when designed to increase aerobic fitness, might have a positive effect on the brain in healthy young adults,» explained corresponding author and principal investigator Karin Schon, PhD, BUSM assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology.

Sales of «brain fitness» software increased from a few million dollars in 2005 to $ 80 million in 2007, according to an estimate from the consulting firm Sharpbrains.

«Sport in old age can stimulate brain fitness, but effect decreases with advancing age.»

Higher fit older adults also had greater activation than young adults in some brain regions, suggesting that fitness may also serve a compensatory role in age - related memory and brain decline.

But Merzenich's greatest commercial hit could come with a $ 395 treatment called the Brain Fitness Program, marketed by Posit Science, in which he has a minority interest.

Brain Fitness was developed by a team of neuroscientists led by Michael Merzenich, a coinventor of both the cochlear implant and a highly regarded software package for treating dyslexia in children (see «The Elastic Brain» by Katherine Ellison in DISCOVER, May 2007).

Older adults who experience good cardiac fitness may be also keeping their brains in good shape as well.

A study of red deer on a Scottish island reveals some of the first evidence in wild mammals of a clear link between brain size and evolutionary fitness

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Scientists have linked aerobic fitness in kids to bigger brains, specifically, the part involved in paying attention.

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.

They caution that additional research is needed to track changes in fitness and brain structure over time, as well as clarify the impact of specific exercise programs (such as strength, aerobic or combined training) or dose of exercise (frequency, intensity, duration) on white matter microstructure.

According to the researchers these results provide evidence of a positive association between fitness and brain structure in older adults.

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have proven, for the first time in history, that physical fitness in children may affect their brain structure, which in turn may have an influence on their academic performance.

Moreover, «physical fitness is a factor that can be modified through physical exercise, and combining exercises that improve the aerobic capacity and the motor ability would be an effective approach to stimulate brain development and academic performance in overweight / obese children.»

The researchers determined that lower fitness levels were associated with weaker white matter, which in turn correlated with lower brain function.

More specifically, the researchers have confirmed that physical fitness in children (especially aerobic capacity and motor ability) is associated with a greater volume of gray matter in several cortical and subcortical brain regions.

«The answer is short and forceful: yes, physical fitness in children is linked in a direct way to important brain structure differences, and such differences are reflected in the children's academic performance.»

The researchers said that the association between physical fitness and development of dementia in the study may not be causal, albeit many studies have linked physical exercise and brain health.

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Its creators say it turns your PC into «a fitness room for the brain,» assessing and developing key cognitive skills, tailoring the program to work on weak spots, and increasing in difficulty as your skills improve.

As if reduction in stress, increase in gray brain matter, general peace of mind, improved physical fitness and overall positive state of well - being...

It turns out that instead of simply accepting that the bundles of nerves in your brain inevitably deteriorate with age, you can help slow — or even prevent — the process by making smart lifestyle changes and embracing brain fitness.

The increased brain activity in the highly fit older people was seen in brain regions that show typical age - related decline, which suggests that fitness can contribute to maintenance of the brain.

The degree to which these changes in memory performance and brain activity were seen in the older participants depended largely on their level of fitness.

The brain scans revealed that people with a lower exercise capacity — defined as the amount of time people could exercise on the treadmill before their heart rate hit a certain threshold — in midlife were more likely to have smaller brains years later, compared with people who had high fitness levels in middle age.

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Then, 20 years later, the people in the study did another treadmill fitness test and had brain scans.

People with low fitness levels in their 40s had less brain volume two decades later, per research from Boston University.

Some treatments may sound like a wacky mix of the scientific and the spiritual — Crystal Bowl Sound Healing (at Rancho La Puerta Fitness Resort and Spa in Baja California) claims to activate alpha waves in the brain; Spirit Flight treatment (at Miraval in Tucson, Arizona) is touted as a blend of energy medicine, full - body massage, acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, and spinal alignment, along with indigenous ceremonial rituals.

«Because Kirtan Kriya had several elements of using chanting, mudras and visualization, there was a «brain fitness» effect in addition to stress - reduction that contributed to the overall effect of the meditation.

Aside from engaging in a computer - based brain exercise program, Dr. Merzenich lists several things you can do on a daily basis, as part of your day - to - day lifestyle, to help maintain optimal brain fitness:

And true fitness comes from training the muscle that sits in your skull: your brain.

When a muscle is stressed, there's an increase in blood flow to the region being exercised, stimulating more responsive nerve connections between the brain and muscle,» says personal trainer and owner of Fully Loaded Fitness, Ethan Hyde.

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.

That doesn't mean you've got early Alzheimer's: «Normal memory problems — like being a little forgetful — start as early as age 27,» says Majid Fotuhi, MD, chairman of the Neurology Institute for Brain Health and Fitness in Baltimore and author of The Memory Cure.

Physical fitness increases the supply of oxygen to the brain, enhances the production of feel - good endorphins in the mind, and promotes healthy organs.

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