Exercise and mental health: What did we learn in the last 20 years?

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Deslandes, Andrea Camaz ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Depression; Exercise; Mental disorders; Mental health; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOTE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RISK REDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84904513732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00066     Document Type: Note

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