Flaminia Ronca<\/a>, an associate professor with University College London in the U.K.<\/p>\n\u201cThe most exciting finding from our study is that if we become fitter, our brains benefit even more from a single session of exercise, and this can change in only six weeks,\u201d Ronca said in a news release.<\/p>\n
For the new study, researchers recruited 30 out-of-shape folks to take part in a 12-week fitness program involving four sessions a week on an exercise bike.<\/p>\n
Overall, the fitness program did not significantly alter the participants\u2019 baseline BDNF levels when they were at rest.<\/p>\n
But by the final week, participants had a larger spike in BDNF levels following intense exercise, compared to how their brains responded at the start. This increased spike was linked to improvements in their aerobic fitness.<\/p>\n
These higher BDNF levels also were associated with positive changes in the prefrontal cortex \u2013 the part of the brain responsible for decision-making and self-control \u2013 during brain function tests.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese results suggest that increasing physical fitness can enhance BDNF transcription in response to acute bouts of exercise. This might, in turn, play a part in the modulation of neural function during executive tasks after acute exercise,\u201d researchers concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s long been known that exercise improves a person\u2019s brain health \u2013 and researchers now think they better…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[278],"tags":[68175,47503,68174,18,539,525,135,19,17,170],"class_list":["post-392907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-bdnf","tag-brain-cells","tag-brain-derived-neurotrophic-factor","tag-eire","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-protein"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116254975210525920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}