Physical Exercise during Encoding Improves Vocabulary Learning in Young Female Adults: A Neuroendocrinological Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Schmidt Kassow, Maren ^a   Deusser, Marie ^a   Thiel, Christian ^a   Otterbein, Sascha ^a   Montag, Christian ^b   Reuter, Martin ^b   Banzer, Winfried ^a   Kaiser, Jochen ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECALL; SITTING;

ADULT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LEARNING; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PHYSICAL EXERTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877917349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064172     Document Type: Article

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