Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognition

By Charles H. Hillman, Kirk I. Erickson, A. Kramer. 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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New neurons and new memories: how does adult hippocampal neurogenesis affect learning and memory? (2010, background): “Increasing evidence suggests that physical exercise not only improves the physical health of individuals but also improves cognition and other brain function”
Exercise and children's cognition: The role of exercise characteristics and a place for metacognition (2015, background): “21,22 These ﬁndings have led to several neurologically-based hypotheses that attempt to explain how chronic exercise alters brain and cognition.”
Acute moderate exercise elicits increased dorsolateral prefrontal activation and improves cognitive performance with Stroop test (2010, background): “Accordingly, exercise is drawing increasing research attention as a possible lifestyle factor for improving neurocognitive functions, and preventing or delaying dementia (Cotman et al., 2007; Hillman et al., 2008).”
The Promise of mHealth: Daily Activity Monitoring and Outcome Assessments by Wearable Sensors (2011, background): “Measurement of the actual dose of exercise and daily mobility will be essential to future trials that aim to assess, for example, the effects of exercise on cognition after stroke(115,116) or for aging and dementia.(117) Real-world measures of impairment and functional use enabled by sensors could a”
Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications (2011, positive): “…deterioration have yet to be fully investigated, substantial human and preclinical data support the utility of such exercise for promoting brain plasticity and improving CNS function in many conditions (Cotman and Berchtold, 2002; Hillman et al., 2008), including normal ageing and early dementia.”
Learning, attentional control and action video games (2012, background): “exercise or not [2].”
Heart Rate Variability, Prefrontal Neural Function, and Cognitive Performance: The Neurovisceral Integration Perspective on Self-regulation, Adaptation, and Health (2009, background): “In fact, several researchers have noted that exercise improves executive function and have identified the associated brain regions, including many of those linked to HRV [95].”
A Review of the Effects of Physical Activity and Exercise on Cognitive and Brain Functions in Older Adults (2013, methodology): “However, as suggested by Spirduso et al. [41] exercise may enhance cognition indirectly by improving health conditions (stress, sleep) and reducing chronic diseases (coronary heart diseases) that impact neurocognitive functions.”
Effects of the FITKids Randomized Controlled Trial on Executive Control and Brain Function (2014, methodology): “We hypothesized that, relative to the wait-list control group, the FITKids intervention would result in (1) improvements in behavioral performance, (2) increased attention allocation (measured via P3 amplitude), and (3) faster cognitive processing speed (measured via P3 latency).”
Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory (2011, background): “Physical activity, such as aerobic exercise, has emerged as a promising lowcost treatment to improve neurocognitive function that is accessible to most adults and is not plagued by intolerable side effects often found with pharmaceutical treatments (3).”
Exercise and the brain: something to chew on (2009, background): “These deleterious consequences of aging might be attenuated by exercise [6].”
Exercising Your Brain: A Review of Human Brain Plasticity and Training-Induced Learning (2008, positive): “Yet, several recent reviews and meta-analyses (Colcombe & Kramer, 2003; Etnier, Nowell, Landers, & Sibley, 2006; Hillman et al., 2008; Kramer & Erickson, 2007) have demonstrated that across studies, designs, and dependent measures, older adults that perform aerobic activity exhibit enhanced…”