ReviewCells2021
Putting Cells in Motion: Advantages of Endogenous Boosting of BDNF Production.
Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Improving executive functioning and reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease with music therapy: A narrative review of potential neural mechanisms.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Review
- Beyond conventional therapies: MSCs in the battle against nerve injury.Regenerative therapy · 2025Review
- Home Environment as a Therapeutic Target for Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases: Delivering Restorative Living Spaces, Patient Education and Self-Care by Bridging Biophilic Design, E-Commerce and Digital Health Technologies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Combined Exercise and Ursolic Acid Improve Hippocampal Neuronal Markers and Exploratory-Locomotor Behavior in Aged Diabetic Rats.Journal of aging research · 2025Article
- Chinese ethnic dance therapy: cultural anthropology and health science perspectives on Tujia ethnic dances.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Overexpression of BDNF Suppresses the Epileptiform Activity in Cortical Neurons of Heterozygous Mice with a Transcription Factor Sip1 Deletion.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Therapeutic Importance of Exercise in Neuroplasticity in Adults with Neurological Pathology: Systematic Review.International journal of exercise science · 2024Review
- Vitamin D, a steroid hormone, from theory to practice.Physiological research · 2023Article
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- Neurotrophic Factors in Health and Disease.Cells · 2022Article
- The hearing hippocampus.Progress in neurobiology · 2022Review
- Sustained delivery of neurotrophic factors to treat spinal cord injury.Translational neuroscience · 2021Review
- Exercise modulation of BDNF/TrkB signaling in Parkinson's disease: an evidence-calibrated review of neuroprotective mechanisms, biomarker limitations, and translational gaps.Frontiers in neurologyReview
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Motor exercise, such as sport or musical activities, helps with a plethora of diseases by modulating brain functions in neocortical and subcortical regions, resulting in behavioural changes related to mood regulation, well-being, memory, and even cognitive preservation in aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Although evidence is accumulating on the systemic neural mechanisms mediating these brain effects, the specific mechanisms by which exercise acts upon the cellular level are still under investigation. This is particularly the case for music training, a much less studied instance of motor exercise than sport. With regards to sport, consistent neurobiological research has focused on the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), an essential player in the central nervous system. BDNF stimulates the growth and differentiation of neurons and synapses. It thrives in the hippocampus, the cortex, and the basal forebrain, which are the areas vital for memory, learning, and higher cognitive functions. Animal models and neurocognitive experiments on human athletes converge in demonstrating that physical exercise reliably boosts BDNF levels. In this review, we highlight comparable early findings obtained with animal models and elderly humans exposed to musical stimulation, showing how perceptual exposure to music might affect BDNF release, similar to what has been observed for sport. We subsequently propose a novel hypothesis that relates the neuroplastic changes in the human brains after musical training to genetically- and exercise-driven BDNF levels.
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