Exercise Improves Executive Function and Achievement and Alters Brain Activation in Overweight Children: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Health Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-98

  Davis, Catherine L ^a   Tomporowski, Phillip D ^b   McDowell, Jennifer E ^b   Austin, Benjamin P ^b   Miller, Patricia H ^b   Yanasak, Nathan E ^a   Allison, Jerry D ^a   Naglieri, Jack A ^c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic exercise; Antisaccade; Cognition; FMRI; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDEMIC; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL FUNCTION; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT CONTROL;

BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OVERWEIGHT;

EID: 79951563199     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021766     Document Type: Article

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