John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman, Spark! How Exercise Will Improve the Performance of Your Brain, Quercus, 2009.
The main author, Dr John Ratey, is a psychiatrist with a strong interest in exercise as a way of treating/managing depression and ADHD, and also its role in health ageing. In this book, he presents in plain English research on brain stem cells and exercise. In the last 10 years or so, neuroscientists have started to uncover how exercise causes the growth of new neurons in the brain, and increases brain volume and capacity. (This research overturns the old dogma that said that unlike the rest of the body, the adult brain never grows new cells. )
The main author, Dr John Ratey, is a psychiatrist with a strong interest in exercise as a way of treating/managing depression and ADHD, and also its role in health ageing. In this book, he presents in plain English research on brain stem cells and exercise. In the last 10 years or so, neuroscientists have started to uncover how exercise causes the growth of new neurons in the brain, and increases brain volume and capacity. (This research overturns the old dogma that said that unlike the rest of the body, the adult brain never grows new cells. )
