proofonline.org » Exercise http://www.proofonline.org/blog mental health blog Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:24:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Habitual Exercise May Seed Anxiety-resistant Brain Cells http://www.proofonline.org/blog/2009/11/18/habitual-exercise-may-seed-anxiety-resistant-brain-cells/ http://www.proofonline.org/blog/2009/11/18/habitual-exercise-may-seed-anxiety-resistant-brain-cells/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:40:04 +0000 Douglas Faneuil http://www.proofonline.org/blog/?p=253 Quote It looks more and more like the positive stress of exercise prepares cells and structures and pathways within the brain so that they’re more equipped to handle stress in other forms,” says Michael Hopkins, a graduate student affiliated with the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Laboratory at Dartmouth, who has been studying how exercise differently affects thinking and emotion. “It’s pretty amazing, really, that you can get this translation from the realm of purely physical stresses to the realm of psychological stressors.”

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