Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?

Re:Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain? by illivah on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @11:31AM (#11118967)

What exercise is better for improving my cooking skill? What about the exercise that's best for my alcohol consumption?

If you want to improve your brain, it's important to be healthy, I get that. But come on, the point of exercising is to be healthy. Beyond that no exercise is going to improve your brain directly if it doesn't actually use your brain. This whole movement makes me very skeptical.

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Re:Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain? by etrautmann on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @02:32PM (#11120542)

This logic isn't quite right though your intuition is easy to understand.

The thought behind these studies is that exercise leads to the release of certain chemicals, in this case BDNF (brain-derived neurotropic factor) that leads to new neuron growth. This mechanism is a physiologically reasonable way for exercise to improve your brain without directly using/engaging the neural circuits in a way that would modify learning and memory.

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Re:Which Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain? by Joof on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:18PM (#11119962)

1) cooking new things / practice

2) decrease: any exercise most likely.

   increase: drinking more alcohol in more places to increase tolerance & conditioning.

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