Augmenting brain and cognition by aerobic exercise

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6780 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 30-38

  Erickson, Kirk I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; atrophy; brain; exercise

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ATROPHY; BRAIN REGIONS; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS; EXERCISE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPAL FORMATION; OLDER ADULTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER VOLUMES; PARIETAL CORTICES;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BRAIN; TISSUE; AGING OF MATERIALS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960314874     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21852-1_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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