Physical exercise keeps the brain connected by increasing white matter integrity in healthy controls
| العنوان: | Physical exercise keeps the brain connected by increasing white matter integrity in healthy controls |
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| المؤلفون: | Woo-Kyoung Yoo, Shahid Bashir, Mohammed Alnafisah, Fahad Alsultan, Turki Abualait, Abdullah Almousa, Abdullah Abu Jamea, Maha Alzahrani |
| المصدر: | Medicine |
| بيانات النشر: | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, longitudinal, Fiber tract, Observational Study, Physical exercise, White matter, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Neuroimaging, physical exercise, medicine, Humans, Exercise, business.industry, Healthy subjects, General Medicine, diffusion tensor imaging, White Matter, Healthy Volunteers, medicine.anatomical_structure, Healthy individuals, connectivity, Female, business, fractional anisotropy, Diffusion MRI, Research Article |
| الوصف: | Physical exercise leads to structural changes in the brain. However, it is unclear whether the initiation or continuous practice of physical exercise causes this effect and whether brain connectivity benefits from exercise. We examined the effect of 6 months of exercise on the brain in participants who exercise regularly (n = 25) and in matched healthy controls (n = 20). Diffusion tensor imaging brain scans were obtained from both groups. Our findings demonstrate that regular physical exercise significantly increases the integrity of white matter fiber tracts, especially those related to frontal function. This implies that exercise improves brain connectivity in healthy individuals, which has important implications for understanding the effect of fitness programs on the brains of healthy subjects. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1536-5964 0025-7974 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::9b7fa9659e13566290dd39118b11fa10Test http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8415959Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....9b7fa9659e13566290dd39118b11fa10 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15365964 00257974 |
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