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How to Improve Brain Health Across Your Lifespan | Dr Tommy Wood, Research Assistant Professor

Reason & Wellbeing

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The Effects of Exercise on the Hippocampus

The hippocampus is an area of the brain in the medial temporal lobe that's very important for memory, as well as emotional regulation. The first time we saw that you could actually increase the size of this area of thebrain was with a walking intervention. And there have been other studies that looked at something similar with resistance training.

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