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Study Finds You Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise
phantomfive writes: Researchers have discovered that aerobic exercise may increase neurogenesis. Based on the results, rats that were put on a treadmill grew more brain cells than rats that didn't. Resistance training seemed to have no effect. This is significant, because the neuron reserve of the hippocampus can be increased, thus preconditions for learning for humans could be improved simply through aerobic exercise.
Brain cells and associated nerve connections are necessary to operate muscles. If you exercise more, or perhaps even hone a skill associated with exercise (playing basketball or tennis perhaps), then you would also expect the brain to grow connections associated with these activities.
So yes, the brain grows. Does it make a person smarter? Not necessarily, it makes a person more able to move that muscle with finer control.
Also, this seems to be a repeat of the same study in the past, though its first occurrence on /.?:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/study-people-who-exercise-have-larger-brains-later-in-life/264017/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/10/13/how-exercise-makes-your-brain-grow/#18d2c88248c1
Does this mean anything for Alzheimer's, both pre and during?
So people who are both stupid and aerobically exercise are that dumb even *after* they're cheating?
So people who are both stupid and aerobically exercise are that dumb even *after* they're cheating?
There is no proven cure for Stupid, only for ignorant.
I'm screwed then. *gets more settled in his seat*
> In rodents, the hippocampus has been studied extensively as part of a brain system responsible for spatial memory and navigation. Many neurons in the rat and mouse hippocampus respond as place cells: that is, they fire bursts of action potentials when the animal passes through a specific part of its environment. Hippocampal place cells interact extensively with head direction cells, whose activity acts as an inertial compass, and conjecturally with grid cells in the neighboring entorhinal cortex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus
So, they're saying I can get smarter by logging off of slashdot and going outside?
Most prefferably, I'd want to have a longer dick. Not that mine is small. But I still want it bigger. Like mr. trump, he wants more and more voters vote for him.
How quickly this escalated from more brain cells to more voters for Trump. Even via a detour. All in one line.
This is very interesting, but part of the article mentions that some rats were more predispositioned to benefit than others through genetics. If that applies to humans as well, that means this running will benefit only some of us with an increased hippocampus size. However, one should be getting aerobic exercise anyway, although many of us don't; the health benefits are well worth it.
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
It's a form of encryption I think.
Funny how results from animal experiments end up getting generalized.
I agree that those in the list often attempt and fail miserably at being human beings evidenced by the obvious simian mongoloid level of idiocy present in their posts (almost unintelligible encryption requiring hieroglyphics experts to translate from chimp to human), conveying not only illiteracy but imbecile level higher brain function also being problematic for them.
Isn't that how the saying goes?
Maybe this gives that more substance - keeping up a physical exercise program helps keep up your mental state.
I'll believe it once its been replicated by another team somewhere else. So sick of press releases.
Several people are linking to new articles from a few years ago. This information has been known since the 90s. Running has been shown to enhance neurogenesis and learning. Interesting enough spending time with a creative group of people expressing your ideas also promotes neurogenesis. It appears the key to health and well being is exercise and good social connections.
I'm somewhat concerned to find I'm not on that list. You must not have read my posts!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I know I got lots of ideas while watching the 20 Minute Workout back in the 1980s.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
This is the reason that so many gym teachers have doctorates.
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Can't prove it by the athletes I've met. Antidotal evidence suggests that the effect may be limited.
Jocks are Junkies too, lol.
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
Have you ever met someone into running? They talk about it constantly, they spend gobs of money on shoes and outfits. All their friends are runners. They put stickers on their cars to celebrate their running. It's like an exclusive club or a cult. Tribal dynamics would suggest that they think of themselves as smarter than others and in my experience they demonstrated that. I wouldn't be shocked at all if the researchers that published this study were runners themselves.
Why is it always the hard stuff like exercise? Why is it never, "You can grow brain cells through drinking and watching porn"?
Life ain't fair.
You are welcome on my lawn.
This is old news. Correlation was already noticed by Romans, or perhaps before.
What about anaerobic exercise? Technically it should be the reverse as you are starving your whole system of oxygen.
Or are they afraid of pointing out that running at 90% output or higher for extended periods of time is actually very very bad for you.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Then get your BF one of those kits and stop bothering us here. Amazing that you can even type with a full mouth and obstructed view.
The administration of Gov Rick Snyder is under lot of fire for its lacklustre response to the crisis in Flint. The residents are still being asked to walk to the local fire station to pick their daily ration of water bottles. Today his spokesman vigorously pushed back claiming it is according to plan. He said, "The latest research shows aerobic exercises improve the brain cell count and the children with lead affected brains need to get all the exercise they can get to get back on track. This is how the administration is finding innovative ways to make Flint residents get adequate physical exercise".
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Study Finds Rats Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise FTFY Unless you are a rat the study doesn't show that you can grow brain cells through exercise.
He must have forgotten you're one of their fake account alterego sockpuppet accounts for farming karma for them to use to upmod themselves and opponents they can't validly prove wrong down! The agenda must be furthered even if you spout lies and gibberish!
LOlolOloLOLOlol R O T F L M A O classic shit on topic too hahahahahaha!
I surrender and accept the fact that millennials think nothing happened and no one knew anything before they were born and they will continue to do studies that show what other studies have already proven or demonstrated over the years. It isn't as though we are wasting time and energy that could be used for actual new advancement of the species rather than retreading ground already covered, right? :P Science is broken and millennials are hilarious (but not in a good way).
Coren22, gstoddart, amicusnycl, Ash-Fox, omnichad, JustAnotherOldGuy, z00L00k, and all other advertiseradblock shills and sockpuppets. They need at least some braincells. They lack them natively. Studying them here in their natural habitat of sockpuppetry and trollery has been enlightening in that regard. Finding them utterly devoid of anything but simian characteristics mentally and cretinism or mongoloidism (sometimes both in some cases listed above earlier) and certainly minus any intellect makes my subject a strong suggestion I am sure most here will agree with wholeheartedly! Their microcephalic skulls must be filled at last. Vacuum is the present state. They can't understand logic so they practice illogic logic hoping it will fool the weak minded dolts amongst you (not that many thank god).
Do not mind the replies from them or their sockpuppet alterego fake accounts such as Phantomfive who got butthurt he was not noted when this was posted earlier and twice minusmodded for its truths.
The most you will find is chimp like squeals or grunts in response to this factually based documentary. However, hilarity will ensue as you see the lab subjects listed above in response. This will truly leave no stone unturned as they provide the evidence of their primitoid states!
(either from the lion or to the prey)
it's worth spending the energy to grow more IQ points to use to figure out how to be more lazy.
Does that say that couch potatoes are the pinnacle of evolution, or about to get eaten?
some things about those who do nothing but lift weights.
By that logic, the Japanese should be the smartest people on Earth. They have company-wide aerobic exercises everywhere. It must be that company-wide stress and very long working hours that counteract the benefits.
So that is why American ham planets are so dumb.
Most prefferably, I'd want to have a longer dick. Not that mine is small. But I still want it bigger. Like mr. trump, he wants more and more voters vote for him.
How quickly this escalated from more brain cells to more voters for Trump. Even via a detour. All in one line.
It's because Donald Trump is like Hitler!
Wir sind geboren, um frei zu sein - Rio Reiser
Trump is a grower, not a shower.
Some people use all available brain cells for dumb thinking. Having more brain cells doesn't make them smarter, it would expand their capabilities in stupidity.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
...does not agree with the results of this study.
He's only a Hitler aficionado, he's not really like Hitler. Much. Yet.
Says that scientist that gym company just hired...
...reproduced?
I have lost count of the amount of joggers who now resemble pancakes due to them not having sufficient cerebral capacity to look both ways before running across the road.
YOU LOSE BRAIN CELLS BY BEING A COUCH POTATO
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160210165702.htm
Godwins law already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's what happened to this pack of "ne'er-do-wells" http://science.slashdot.org/co... nothing decent we've ever seen from any of them in computing.
>highest life expectancy in Japan
Yeah I notice they never re-adjusted this much touted statistic after the revelations in the Sogen Kato case (grandkids continue to collect pension, mummified grandma found, investigation starts, 80,000 120+ year olds collecting pensions, 300k unaccounted for, etc.). That'll skew the totals just a bit.