How Brain Efficiency, Dopamine, and Fitness Are Intertwined

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Is staying physically fit the key to better brain efficiency?

's goal was to determine if sEBR is an effective marker for tracking exercise-induced changes in neural efficiency that previous studies link to the brain's dopamine system."The dopaminergic system is associated with both executive function and motivated behavior, including physical activity," Kuwamizu explains in a February 1.

To test this hypothesis, the researchers had a cohort of 35 healthy young men undergo an aerobic fitness evaluation in conjunction with sEBR assessments; they also performed a Stroop task to measure executive functions. During the color-word Stroop task, cortical activity in the prefrontal cortex was monitored using functional near-infrared spectroscopy . Among other findings, correlation analyses showed that"higher sEBR was correlated with higher neural efficiency of the l-DLPFC.

"As expected, we found significant correlations between aerobic fitness, cognitive function, and sEBR," Soya noted."When we examined these relationships further, we found that the connection between higher aerobic fitness and enhanced cognitive function was mediated in part by dopaminergic regulation."

"Although previous studies have indicated that aerobic fitness and cognitive function are correlated, this is the first to provide a neuromodulatory basis for this connection in humans," Kuwamizu added.

 

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absolutely true... sound mind in sound body... 😅

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Yes. I tell people to put away the crossword puzzles and instead stay physically fit.

Corey Waller says dopamine equals motivation and vice versa

Absolutely, a sound body makes a sound mind

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Maybe it’s having good sex?

K, I think I need to Crochet that. Now that I know how to make s MagicCircle. 😂

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