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The connection between physical movement and brain function has emerged as one of neuroscience’s most significant discoveries. The human brain, despite representing only 2% of body weight, consumes ...

Linda Overstreet-Wadiche, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurobiology, says studies show that exercise can significantly improve many aspects of brain ...

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Did you know that exercise not only helps you look and feel better, it can also help make you smarter? Forget the old “dumb jock” stereotype. My friend, a Harvard Business School graduate, told me ...

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The joint study used deep brain stimulation devices to measure how 12 exercise sessions created new neural pathways in ...

Many of my students are obsessed with some form of exercise. They are driven to run 10 to 20 miles, or swim four hours, every day, no matter how inconvenient to their daily schedule or how much ...