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Book SynopsisClearly your body benefits from regular exercise, but does your brain benefit as well? Your Brain on Exercise skillfully blends scholarship with illuminating insights and clarity to directly answer this question, illustrating the intersection between brain health, the consequences of exercise, and our need to eat in an entirely new light. An internationally renowned neuroscientist and medical researcher, Dr. Gary Wenk has been educating college and medicalstudents about the brain and lecturing around the world for more than forty years. He has been interviewed about his work by NPR (Science Friday), CBS, ABC, CNN, and was a guest of Dr. Oz.
Trade ReviewThis book is written so as to lead the undergraduate reader easily from one topic to the next, demonstrating that the author's main intent is to foster understanding. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students. General readers. * A. H. Goldfarb, CHOICE *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The High Cost of Exercise 1. Learning From The Biggest Loser 2. The Devil Is in the Details 3. A Long Time Ago 4. Making Energy for Exercise 5. Exercise Requires Eating and Breathing 6. It's Not Good to be a Male Part II: Your Brain on Exercise 7. BDNF: Much ado about something? 8. Muscle Signals to Your Brain 9. The Paradox Molecule 10. A Few Facts About Your Brain 11. How Your Brain Responds to Exercise 12. Exercise for the Depressed Brain 13. Exercise for the Child's Brain 14. Exercise for the Chemo Brain 15. Exercise and Pain 16. Exercise for the Injured Brain 17. Diet and Exercise Following Brain Injury 18. Exercising the Older Brain Part III: Why Exercise? References
