{"id":154740,"date":"2016-02-10T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T10:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154740"},"modified":"2016-02-10T12:49:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T10:49:50","slug":"exercise-could-make-you-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/154740-exercise-could-make-you-smarter.html","title":{"rendered":"Exercise could make you smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have found a potential link between increased neurogenesis and aerobic exercise such as running, Neuroscience News reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the Department of Psychology and from the Department of Biology of Physical Activity at the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 studied the effects of sustained running exercise and high-intensity and resistance training on hippocampal neurogenesis in adult male rats.<\/p>\n

They found that it may be possible to increase the neuron reserve of the hippocampus through exercise.<\/p>\n

The result is important, according to Neuroscience News, because previous research found that the new hippocampal neurons produced as a result of neurogenesis are needed for learning temporally, and spatially-complex tasks.<\/p>\n

It is possible that the preconditions for learning may be improved by promoting neurogenesis via sustained aerobic exercise – not only in rats, but in humans too.<\/p>\n

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There may be a link between improved preconditions for learning and aerobic exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":154748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,35388,35390],"class_list":["post-154740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-fitness","tag-university-of-jyvaskyla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154752,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154740\/revisions\/154752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}