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Study Finds You Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise

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phantomfive writes: Researchers have discovered that aerobic exercise may increase neurogenesis. Based on the results, rats that were put on a treadmill grew more brain cells than rats that didn't. Resistance training seemed to have no effect. This is significant, because the neuron reserve of the hippocampus can be increased, thus preconditions for learning for humans could be improved simply through aerobic exercise.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Study+Finds+You+Can+Grow+Brain+Cells+Through+Exercise%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1PkdNL1"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F16%2F02%2F10%2F0022207%2Fstudy-finds-you-can-grow-brain-cells-through-exercise%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/10/0022207/study-finds-you-can-grow-brain-cells-through-exercise?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/10/0022207/study-finds-you-can-grow-brain-cells-through-exercise?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/IemC4s4qdyM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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