Exercise May Increase Volume in Certain Brain Areas of Patients With Schizophren

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This is the last of my posts for a while as you probably need a rest from me with all this science stuff.

Remember, exercise should always remain fun. If you push yourself too hard and get stressed you undo all the benefits. So, enjoyable vigorous exercise is best.

Exercise May Increase Volume in Certain Brain Areas of Patients With Schizophrenia (and ordinary healthy people benefited from exercise too)

Following exercise training, hippocampal volume increased 12 percent in patients with schizophrenia and 16 percent in healthy controls. "To provide a context, the magnitude of these changes in volume was similar to that observed for other subcortical structures when patients were switched from typical to atypical antipsychotic drug therapy," the authors write. Conversely, patients with schizophrenia who played tabletop football instead of exercising experienced a 1 percent decrease in hippocampal volume.

Aerobic fitness also increased among all who exercised, and improvement in test scores for short-term memory was correlated with increases in hippocampal volume among patients and healthy controls.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201171519.htm

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