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Clearly your body benefits from regular exercise, but does your brain benefit as well?
Your Brain on Exercise skillfully blends scholarship with illuminating insights and clarity to directly answer this question, illustrating the intersection between brain health, the consequences of exercise, and our need to eat in an entirely new light. An internationally renowned neuroscientist and medical researcher, Dr. Gary Wenk has been educating college and medical students about the brain and lecturing around the world for more than forty years. He has been interviewed about his work by NPR (Science Friday), CBS, ABC, CNN, and was a guest of Dr. Oz.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The High Cost of Exercise
- 1. Learning From The Biggest Loser
- 2. The Devil Is in the Details
- 3. A Long Time Ago
- 4. Making Energy for Exercise
- 5. Exercise Requires Eating and Breathing
- 6. It's Not Good to be a Male
- Part II: Your Brain on Exercise
- 7. BDNF: Much ado about something?
- 8. Muscle Signals to Your Brain
- 9. The Paradox Molecule
- 10. A Few Facts About Your Brain
- 11. How Your Brain Responds to Exercise
- 12. Exercise for the Depressed Brain
- 13. Exercise for the Child's Brain
- 14. Exercise for the Chemo Brain
- 15. Exercise and Pain
- 16. Exercise for the Injured Brain
- 17. Diet and Exercise Following Brain Injury
- 18. Exercising the Older Brain
- Part III: Why Exercise?
- References
About the author
Dr. Gary Wenk is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Director of Neuroscience Programs at the Ohio State University. He is an internationally recognized research investigator of age-related brain disorders, an award-winning educator, and author of more than 300 research articles and chapters. He has served on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University and was the Director of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Biological Basis of Behavior Program at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. Dr. Wenk was elected a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his distinguished contributions in the field of neuropharmacology, neurodegenerative diseases, and neuroinflammatory processes. He has been interviewed about his work by Dr. Oz, NPR, WBZ, WJR, CBS, ABC, and CNN, and he currently serves on the State of Ohio Governor's Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee.
