ArticleBrain sciences2013
Promoting motor function by exercising the brain.
Article in Brain sciences, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
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28 citing papers in PubMed.
- Resistance training tempo selectively modulates corticospinal and reticulospinal excitability in humans.The Journal of physiology · 2026Trial
- Assessing Changes in Motor Function and Mobility in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease After 12 Sessions of Patient-Specific Adaptive Dynamic Cycling.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Trial
- The Impact of Brain Breaks Classroom-Based Physical Activities on Attitudes toward Physical Activity in Polish School Children in Third to Fifth Grade.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Trial
- Long Term Effect of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Cerebral Blood Flow.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2018Trial
- Resynchronization of microglial activity in the brain is associated with restoration of motor function in Parkinson's disease.Communications biology · 2025Article
- The effects of acute exercise intensity on memory: Controlling for state-dependence.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Exercise orchestrates systemic metabolic and neuroimmune homeostasis via the brain-muscle-liver axis to slow down aging and neurodegeneration: a narrative review.European journal of medical research · 2025Review
- Visual supercompensation following short-term exhaustive exercise.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Exercise, Neuroprotective Exerkines, and Parkinson's Disease: A Narrative Review.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- Investigating the efficacy of a tactile feedback system to increase the gait speed of older adults.Human movement science · 2023Article
- Exercise for Mental Well-Being: Exploring Neurobiological Advances and Intervention Effects in Depression.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Cognitive Function, and Its Relationships with Comorbidities, Physical Activity, and Muscular Strength in Korean Older Adults.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Regional cortical perfusion increases induced by a 6-month endurance training in young sedentary adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Evaluating brain functioning with NIRS in sports: Cerebral oxygenation and cortical activation are two sides of the same coin.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2022Article
- Using Brain-BreaksBrain sciences · 2021Article
- Current Methodological Pitfalls and Caveats in the Assessment of Exercise-Induced Changes in Peripheral Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor: How Result Reproducibility Can Be Improved.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2021Review
- Cerebral Oxygenation Dynamics During Incremental Exercise: Comparison of Arm Cranking and Leg Cycling.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021Article
- Exercise: A Gate That Primes the Brain to Perform.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Differences in Net Information Flow and Dynamic Connectivity Metrics Between Physically Active and Inactive Subjects Measured by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) During a Fatiguing Handgrip Task.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Remarkable hand grip steadiness in individuals with complete spinal cord injury.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
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Abstract
Exercise represents a behavioral intervention that enhances brain health and motor function. The increase in cerebral blood volume in response to physical activity may be responsible for improving brain function. Among the various neuroimaging techniques used to monitor brain hemodynamic response during exercise, functional near-infrared spectroscopy could facilitate the measurement of task-related cortical responses noninvasively and is relatively robust with regard to the subjects' motion. Although the components of optimal exercise interventions have not been determined, evidence from animal and human studies suggests that aerobic exercise with sufficiently high intensity has neuroprotective properties and promotes motor function. This review provides an insight into the effect of physical activity (based on endurance and resistance exercises) on brain function for producing movement. Since most progress in the study of brain function has come from patients with neurological disorders (e.g., stroke and Parkinson's patients), this review presents some findings emphasizing training paradigms for restoring motor function.
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