Breaking Research For 1-16-2001

couple of years ago, researchers from Duke University announced that exercise could help fight depression. In fact, they discovered that regular exercise worked just as well as drugs in fighting depression among the elderly and middle-aged.

Now, it looks like the benefits of exercise might be even more far-reaching than previously believed. The Duke team looked into the brains of elderly people who were exercising and concluded they actually thought better. After they noticed improvements in memory and organizational skills among people taking part in the study, they scanned their brains. They found increased activity in the frontal and prefrontal regions of the brain, the areas which are thought to control the so-called higher mental processes. The reason for the improvement might be as simple as exercise improving blood flow to the brain.

Just another reason to exercise.

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