Dancing or fitness sport? The effects of two training programs on hippocampal plasticity and balance abilities in healthy seniors

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Rehfeld, Kathrin ^a,b   Müller, Patrick ^a,b   Aye, Norman ^a,b   Schmicker, Marlen ^a   Dordevic, Milos ^a,b   Kaufmann, Jörn ^b   Hökelmann, Anita ^b   Müller, Notger G ^a,b,c  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Balance; Dancing; Fitness training; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSITION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; DENTATE GYRUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUBICULUM;

EID: 85021651899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00305     Document Type: Article

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