Why and how physical activity promotes experience-induced brain plasticity

Why and how physical activity promotes experience-induced brain plasticity

Adult hippocampal neurogenesis is an unusual case of brain plasticity, since new neurons (and not just neurites and synapses) are added to the network in an activity-dependent way. At the behavioral level the plasticity-inducing stimuli include both physical and cognitive activity. In reductionistic...

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Main Authors: Gerd eKempermann, Klaus eFabel, Dan eEhninger, Harish eBabu, Perla eLeal-Galicia, Alexander eGarthe, Susanne eWolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
Subjects:
Exercise
Hippocampus
Learning
evolution
reserve
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2010.00189/full

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