Move your body, boost your brain: the positive impact of physical activity on cognition across all age groups

F Festa, S Medori, M Macrì - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
While the physical improvements from exercise have been well documented over the years,
the impact of physical activity on mental health has recently become an object of interest …

Possible roles for fronto-striatal circuits in reading disorder

R Hancock, F Richlan, F Hoeft - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Several studies have reported hyperactivation in frontal and striatal regions in individuals
with reading disorder (RD) during reading-related tasks. Hyperactivation in these regions is …

A single bout of high-intensity aerobic exercise facilitates response to paired associative stimulation and promotes sequence-specific implicit motor learning

CS Mang, NJ Snow, KL Campbell… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
The objectives of the present study were to evaluate the impact of a single bout of high-
intensity aerobic exercise on 1) long-term potentiation (LTP)-like neuroplasticity via …

The effect of an acute bout of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise on motor learning of a continuous tracking task

NJ Snow, CS Mang, M Roig, MN McDonnell… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Introduction There is evidence for beneficial effects of acute and long-term exercise
interventions on several forms of memory, including procedural motor learning. In the …

Neurodiagnostics in sports: investigating the athlete's brain to augment performance and sport-specific skills

O Seidel-Marzi, P Ragert - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Enhancing performance levels of athletes during training and competition is a desired goal
in sports. Quantifying training success is typically accompanied by performance diagnostics …

Alterations in knee sensorimotor brain functional connectivity contributes to ACL injury in male high-school football players: a prospective neuroimaging analysis

JA Diekfuss, DR Grooms, KS Nissen… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective This study's purpose was to utilize a prospective dataset to examine differences in
functional brain connectivity in male high school athletes who suffered an anterior cruciate …

The effect of energy-matched exercise intensity on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and motor learning

JF Baird, ME Gaughan, HM Saffer, MA Sarzynski… - Neurobiology of learning …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Pairing a bout of high-intensity exercise with motor task practice can enhance
motor learning beyond task practice alone, which is thought, in part, to be facilitated by an …

Predicting motor sequence learning in individuals with chronic stroke

KP Wadden, KD Asis, CS Mang… - … and Neural Repair, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. Conventionally, change in motor performance is quantified with discrete
measures of behavior taken pre-and postpractice. As a high degree of movement variability …

Exploring genetic influences underlying acute aerobic exercise effects on motor learning

CS Mang, LM McEwen, JL MacIsaac, NJ Snow… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The objective of the current work was to evaluate whether the effects of acute aerobic
exercise on motor learning were dependent on genetic variants impacting brain-derived …

Early motor skill acquisition in healthy older adults: brain correlates of the learning process

M Durand-Ruel, C Park, M Moyne… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motor skill learning is a crucial process at all ages. However, healthy aging is often
accompanied by a reduction in motor learning capabilities. This study characterized the …