Does body shaping influence brain shape? Habitual physical activity is linked to brain morphology independent of age

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 387-396

  Demirakca, Traute ^a   Brusniak, Wencke ^a   Tunc Skarka, Nuran ^a   Wolf, Isabella ^a   Meier, Sandra ^a   Matthäus, Franziska ^a   Ende, Gabriele ^a   Schulze, Thomas G ^a,b   Diener, Carsten ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c SRH UNIVERSITY HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Bernstein Center for Computational Neurosciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Cingulate gyrus; Habitual physical activity; Hippocampus; Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MORPHOLOGY; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEISURE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; SELF REPORT; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904293530     PISSN: 15622975     EISSN: 18141412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2013.803600     Document Type: Article

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