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Catherine Forsythe in
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11 20th, 2009 |
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Folk wisdom always has advocated exercise as a means of coping with stress. Now researchers are gaining some insight into why this works, at a neural level:
“Researchers at Princeton University recently made a remarkable discovery about the brains of rats that exercise. Some of their neurons respond differently to stress than the neurons of slothful rats. Scientists have known for some time that exercise stimulates the creation of new brain cells (neurons) but not how, precisely, these neurons might be functionally different from other brain cells.”
link to the article by Gretchen Reynolds for The New York Times
[Howard Hughes Medical Institue Bulletin/MCT: Photo via Newscom]
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