Cardiovascular fitness, cortical plasticity, and aging.

By Stanley J. Colcombe, A. Kramer, Kirk I. Erickson, Paige E. Scalf, E. McAuley, Neal J. Cohen, Andrew G. Webb, G. Jerome, D. Marquez, S. Elavsky. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Aerobic Exercise and Neurocognitive Performance: a Meta-Analytic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (2010, background): “Previous studies have demonstrated that cerebral alterations associated with exercise are preferentially in the perihippocampal region (83), anterior white matter tracks (88), and anterior cingulate (89).”
2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. (2016, background): “Regular activity also improves cognitive competence for learning.(513,521) This activity can be supplemented with active commuting to school and supervised walking routes to and from school, with less reliance on buses.”
Healthy mind in healthy body? A review of sensorimotor–cognitive interdependencies in old age (2006, background): “Apparently, activation patterns of older adults are more similar to those of young adults after the intervention [21].”
Exercise and Children’s Intelligence, Cognition, and Academic Achievement (2008, methodology): “Colcombe and Kramer (2003) conducted a theory-driven meta analysis of 18 studies designed to assess the impact of physical activity on older adults’ cognitive performance.”
Exercise, cognition, and the aging brain. (2006, background): “In a more recent study, Colcombe and colleagues (9) randomly assigned older adults to participate in either a walking group, or a stretching and toning control group for a 6 month period.”
The Influence of Exercise on Cognitive Abilities (2013, positive): “Results indicated that fitness (study 1) and fitness-training (study 2) was related to greater activation in the middle frontal gyrus and superior parietal cortex, regions involved in attentional control and inhibitory functioning (33).”
Hippocampal plasticity in response to exercise in schizophrenia. (2010, background): “Other studies also indicate increased cardiovascular fitness in humans to be associated with greater activation of cortical networks during cognitive challenges.(6) Although the effects of exercise on hippocampal volume in humans are unknown, several studies indicate plasticity of gray matter volume”
Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications (2011, positive): “…even just a few months significantly benefit cognitive functioning in both healthy ageing and early dementia, may be of benefit in schizophrenia (Colcombe et al., 2004; Kramer and Erickson, 2007), and have been shown to increase brain volume in a variety of regions (Colcombe et al., 2006;…”
Physical Activity, Fitness, Cognitive Function, and Academic Achievement in Children: A Systematic Review. (2016, background): “The objective of this systematic review was to address the following questions: (1) among children aged 5-13, do PA and physical fitness influence cognition, learning, brain structure, and brain function? and (2) among children aged 5-13, do PA, PE, and sports programs influence standardized achieve”
Removing brakes on adult brain plasticity: from molecular to behavioral interventions (2010, background): “, 2000; Nithianantharajah and Hannan, 2006), aerobic fitness also leads to neuroanatomical and neurophysiological changes in older adults, including increased gray matter volume in the prefrontal and temporal areas (Colcombe and Kramer, 2003) and functional brain activity in a variety of areas such ”