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“This study also found that more intense and longer duration (40 min.) aerobic exercise increased the probability of an individual subject achieving a significant BDNF increase and in the integral (i.e. the volume of circulating BDNF).”

“All of these growth factors play a role in maintaining neurons and neurogenesis (the growth of new neurons) and have been shown to cause exercise-induced neurogenesis in animal studies. Just so many reasons to be physically active.”

“Continuous low-oxygen exposure produced notable benefits: Low-oxygen exposure preserved neurons and prevented movement problems, even though harmful protein clumps still accumulated in the brain.”

“Binge sucrose consumption also changes the structure of a certain type of neuron called medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens shell, which plays an important role in motivation and goal-directed behaviors such as food and reward seeking.”

“> This factor is produced by the muscle itself and remodels the neuromuscular synapses, the neuronal junctions between the motor neurons and muscle. BDNF not only causes the strength muscles to develop, but at the same time leads to endurance muscle fiber number decline.”

“A kind of Miracle-Gro for the brain, BDNF stimulates the hippocampus -- the brain's center of learning and long-term memory -- to sprout new neurons, and it increases connections between neurons. [...]”

“A growing body of evidence suggests pregnancy also changes the female brain. A recent study in mice shows that estrogen and progesterone alter galanin-producing neurons in the brain, switching on maternal behavior before offspring arrive.”

“The thinner the retina, the greater the severity of the disease.”