Physical exercise in overweight to obese individuals induces metabolic-and neurotrophic-related structural brain plasticity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JULY, 2015, Pages

  Mueller, Karsten ^a   Moller, Harald E ^a   Horstmann, Annette ^a,b   Busse, Franziska ^a   Lepsien, Joran ^a   Bluher, Matthias ^b,c   Stumvoll, Michael ^c   Villringer, Arno ^a,b,c   Pleger, Burkhard ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Bariatric Surgery   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BDNF; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Brain metabolism; Brain plasticity; Exercise; Magnetic resonance imaging; Obesity; Physical fitness

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LEPTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRAINING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936951154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00372     Document Type: Article

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