01-04-2014 | Book Review
John J. Ratey (2008): Spark: The revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain. Unabridged, 9 hours, 28 minutes
Gildan Media Corp., New York, NY, Retrieved from Audible.com
Auteur:
Ernst VanBergeijk
Gepubliceerd in:
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
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Uitgave 4/2014
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Excerpt
Spark: The revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain explores the latest research on the impact exercise has upon the brain. Ratey, a psychiatrist by training; provides the listener with an easily comprehensible synthesis of the both animal and human subjects research in the area of neurobiology and plasticity in particular. Both the lay and the professional audiences will extract useful information from Spark. Ratey covers a wide range of interests including exercise’s impact upon the brain in terms of learning, attention, executive functioning, mood regulation, and the control of aggressive behaviors. The studies were conceived to address a wide range of afflictions including obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, menopause, and even the decline in math and science scores among high school students in the United States. …