| | Human Kinetics is proud to announce the launch of a new electronic journal, Kinesiology Review (KR). KR’s mission is to advance the field by publishing evaluative, insightful, and integrative scholarly reviews of kinesiology research. To celebrate the publication of this new journal, we’re giving you the chance to preview some of the articles from the inaugural issue. Kinesiology and Mental Health: The Promise of Exercise Neuroscience Research for Diseases and Disorders of the Brain The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relevance of the research in exercise neuroscience to public health imperatives facing the nation in the area of neuropathology—that is, the benefits of exercise to diseases and disorders of the brain. Scientific studies of the influence of exercise on normal aging of the brain and cognition largely began to appear in the literature approximately 35 years ago and employed both animal and human subjects. However, studies of the benefits of exercise to neurocognitive function in clinical populations (with animal subjects as analogs) have only recently appeared in the literature largely in the past eight years. The work with patients and human subjects is even more recent. Collectively, the corpus of work that has emerged offers great promise for prevention and treatment of some of the major disorders of the human brain. More specifically, there is compelling evidence to authorize investigation of exercise in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children. Read the rest of this article or our other preview article, The Death of Play in U.S. Culture. |
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