Age-specific effects of voluntary exercise on memory and the older brain

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 435-442

  Siette, Joyce ^a,c   Westbrook, R Frederick ^a   Cotman, Carl ^d   Sidhu, Kuldip ^a   Zhu, Wanlin ^a   Sachdev, Perminder ^a,b   Valenzuela, Michael J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; exercise; memory; network; neurogenesis; presynaptic density

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE MEMORY; RUNNING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL LEARNING; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEUROGENESIS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RUNNING;

EID: 84873720462     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.05.034     Document Type: Article

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