Gardening your hippocampus with Physical and Mental Exercise
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Alvaro F.Posted
Thu 19 Mar 2009 12:00am
physically fit tend to have bigger hippocampi and better spatial memory than those who are less fit.”
- “Certain activities are believed to modify hippocampus size in humans. For example, a study of London taxi drivers found that the posterior portion of the hippocampus was larger in experienced taxi drivers than in other subjects. And a study of German
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How Big is Your Hippocampus?
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Kara Douglass ThomPosted
Thu 16 Sep 2010 12:00am
While we're buzzing around the childhood obesity epidemic, we have yet another reason to tout the benefits of exercise in children: it grows a bigger hippocampus.
If you picture a herd of grazing hippos on a sprawling university lawn then we should hang out together more often.
But that's not what I mean.
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How Big is Your Hippocampus?
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Logan F.Posted
Thu 05 Mar 2009 2:59pm
I promise this has nothing to with that cheesy TV ad featuring Smiling Bob and his friends who are envious of his anatomy.
But when it comes to the hippocampus, a brain structure vital to certain types of memory size really does matter. And researchers at the University of Illinois have found that elderly adults who are more physically fit tend
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Dim light at night worsens mood, dendritic spines in hippocampus
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Dr. John Z.Posted
Sun 21 Nov 2010 12:00am
for eight weeks showed significant changes in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.
This is the first time researchers have found that light at night, by itself, may be linked to changes in the hippocampus.
These alterations may be a key reason why the researchers also found that the hamsters exposed to dim light at night showed more depressive symptoms
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Hippocampus throughout the menstrual cycle
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Thomas Z. RamsøyPosted
Tue 07 Oct 2008 6:21pm
The recent issue of the journal Hippocampus has an interesting article on the structure of the hippocampus throughout the menstrual cycle. By studying women two times... changes in the hippocampus. Specifically, gray matter was relatively increased in the right anterior hippocampus and relatively decreased in the right dorsal basal ganglia (globus
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Aerobic exercise boosts memory, hippocampus size in older adults
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Dr. John Z.Posted
Tue 01 Feb 2011 12:00am
of the hippocampus, the brain structure involved in all forms of memory formation. The study, funded through the National Institute on Aging, appears in the January 31, 2011 issue...
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Aerobic exercise increases memory, hippocampus in brain
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Dr. John Z.Posted
Tue 02 Feb 2010 12:00am
(an increase in the volume of an area known as the hippocampus) occur in response to aerobic exercise both in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls, according to a report....
Schizophrenia is known to be associated with a reduced volume in the area of the brain known as the hippocampus, which helps regulate emotion and memory, according to background
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The Rockefeller University - Newswire: Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus
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Jodi K.Posted
Tue 24 Nov 2009 8:31am
of Neuroendocrinology, found that a single 30-minute episode of acute stress causes a rapid chemical change in DNA packaging proteins called histones in the rat hippocampus, which is a brain..., H3K9 trimethyl, roughly doubled in the hippocampus. Methylation of a second mark, H3K27 trimethyl, dropped by about 50 percent in the same area. Changes associated with the third
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Jet lag stuns neurogenesis in hippocampus for a month
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Dr. John Z.Posted
Thu 02 Dec 2010 12:00am
brain cell formation in the hippocampus which causes memory and learning problems long after one’s return to a regular 24-hour schedule, according to research by University...’s more, the researchers discovered persistent changes in the brain, specifically within the hippocampus, a part of the brain that plays an intricate role in memory processing
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Even an Old Hippocampus Continues Making New Neurons
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Al Fin ..Posted
Thu 06 May 2010 3:53pm
The brain maintains neuronal stem cells throughout life, according to scientists at Max Planck Institute who studied the phenomenon of lifelong neurogenesis in mouse brains.
The precise factors that influence the reactivation of dormant stem cells are not yet clear. The cells can, however, be stimulated to divide again. The scientists observed m ...
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