03 September 2024
Busybody...Fitter Brain
Evidence that having better cardio-respiratory fitness – through aerobic activities like walking, running, swimming, and biking – is good for the brain's white matter health, with the potential to delay onset or progression of age-related neurodegenerative diseases. This study compares oxygen consumption and myelin [the neuron covering that gives white matter its colour] content in 125 adults aged from 22 to 94
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- Image from work by Mary E. Faulkner and Zhaoyuan Gong, and colleagues
- Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), August 2024
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