Physical activity and memory functions: Are neurotrophins and cerebral gray matter volume the missing link?

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2756-2763

  Floel A ^a,b   Ruscheweyh, R ^a   Kruger K ^c   Willemer, C ^a   Winter, B ^a   Volker K ^a   Lohmann, H ^a   Zitzmann, M ^a   Mooren, F ^c   Breitenstein, C ^a   Knecht, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BDNF; Cognition; Exercise; G CSF

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CINGULATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 71849117426     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.043     Document Type: Article

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