Introduction
Part I: The High Cost of Exercise
1. Learning From The Biggest Loser
2. The Devil Is in the Details
3. A Long Time Ago
4. Making Energy for Exercise
5. Exercise Requires Eating and Breathing
6. It's Not Good to be a Male
Part II: Your Brain on Exercise
7. BDNF: Much ado about something?
8. Muscle Signals to Your Brain
9. The Paradox Molecule
10. A Few Facts About Your Brain
11. How Your Brain Responds to Exercise
12. Exercise for the Depressed Brain
13. Exercise for the Child's Brain
14. Exercise for the Chemo Brain
15. Exercise and Pain
16. Exercise for the Injured Brain
17. Diet and Exercise Following Brain Injury
18. Exercising the Older Brain
Part III: Why Exercise?
References
Dr. Gary Wenk is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and
Neuroscience and the Director of Neuroscience Programs at the Ohio
State University. He is an internationally recognized research
investigator of age-related brain disorders, an award-winning
educator, and author of more than 300 research articles and
chapters. He has served on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins
University and was the Director of the Neurobiology of Learning and
Memory and
Biological Basis of Behavior Program at the National Science
Foundation in Washington, D.C. Dr. Wenk was elected a Fellow by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science for his
distinguished contributions
in the field of neuropharmacology, neurodegenerative diseases, and
neuroinflammatory processes. He has been interviewed about his work
by Dr. Oz, NPR, WBZ, WJR, CBS, ABC, and CNN, and he currently
serves on the State of Ohio Governor's Medical Marijuana Advisory
Committee.
This book is written so as to lead the undergraduate reader easily
from one topic to the next, demonstrating that the author's main
intent is to foster understanding. Recommended. Upper-division
undergraduates. Graduate students. General readers.
*A. H. Goldfarb, CHOICE*
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