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Cognitive enhancing effects of voluntary exercise, caloric restriction and environmental enrichment: a role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis and pattern separation?
- Source :
- Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- Several behavioural interventions, such as physical exercise, dietary restriction, and enriched environments are associated with both improved cognition and increased adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Whether the learning and memory improvements associated with these interventions are causally dependent on the upregulated neurogenesis has not yet been conclusively determined. However, with the accumulating evidence of a role for adult-born hippocampal neurons in spatial pattern separation, it is possible that the improvements in learning and memory result, at least in part, from an improvement in pattern separation. The following review focuses on three major behavioural manipulations associated with cognitive enhancement: voluntary exercise, caloric restriction, and environmental enrichment (including learning), and how increased neurogenesis may contribute to the enhancement by improving pattern separation.
- Subjects :
- Aging
Environmental enrichment
Pattern separation
Prevention
Cognitive Neuroscience
5202 Biological Psychology
Neurogenesis
Neurosciences
Caloric theory
Cognition
Physical exercise
Hippocampal formation
Stem Cell Research
Behavioral Neuroscience
Psychiatry and Mental health
Turnover
52 Psychology
Neurological
Stem Cell Research - Nonembryonic - Non-Human
Mental health
Psychology
Mind and Body
Neuroscience
Nutrition
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23521546
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a657dc89131b9d22080d0c1c1dcc8cfd