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Study Finds You Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise

Posted by yaelk on from the how-to-get-smarter dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Nerve connections for muscles by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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 why then doesn't this work for 'resistance' training? After all, you are exercising muscles.

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  2. Re:Nerve connections for muscles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The slashdot moderation system is horribly broken, isn't it? OP gets modded +5 Informative for posting something that's flatly wrong per the article, and a link that contradicts his own post (the first one, not going to click the forbes one). So neither the OP nor the mods read the article. It's the blind leading the blind around here.