Aerobic fitness and the brain: Increased N-acetyl-aspartate and choline concentrations in endurance-trained middle-aged adults

Brain Topography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 126-134

  Gonzales, Mitzi M ^a   Tarumi, Takashi ^a   Kaur, Sonya ^a   Nualnim, Nantinee ^a   Fallow, Bennett A ^a   Pyron, Martha ^a,b   Tanaka, Hirofumi ^a   Haley, Andreana P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Medicine in Motion   (United States)

Author keywords

1H MRS; Aerobic fitness; Choline; Endurance exercise; N acetyl aspartate

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLINE; CREATINE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN METABOLISM; CELL METABOLISM; CEREBRAL METABOLIC RATE OF OXYGEN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FITNESS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RUNNING; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPARTIC ACID; CHOLINE; COGNITION; CREATINE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84872322602     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-012-0248-8     Document Type: Article

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