1. The Exercising Brain: How Exercise Affects the Brain

2. Do you know of the effects exercise has on the human body?
What are the positive effects you know of? Are there negative?
What physical or non-physical effects can exercise have on the human body which you already know of?
Nom Nom Nom!
Help me
Chris Prat!!

3. The Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) show the increasing or decreasing of white matter integrity based on physical exercise or no physical exercise. The exercise was a 6 month long regiment of cardiovascular exercise such as biking or running. Cardiovascular exercise was determined by a physician when the patient/test subject reach the maximum oxygen update. The exercise regiment was 1 hour twice weekly, consisting of 40 minutes of aerobic and 20 minutes of anaerobic exercise. The exercise regiment was done on an upright bicycle ergometer, rowing machine, cross trainer and tread mill. Anaerobic was done on a weight lifting machine.
The areas in read show patients who have increased white matter integrity – meaning healthy neural connections the myelin sheaths intact
The areas in blue show patients who had decreased white matter integrity – the signal isn’t as strong.
*White matter integrity means the health of the neuron integrity. Myelin sheathing health!

4. What do you think has happened?
What are the key differences you see?
What do you think the repercussions to a human could be?
Do you think the images show a positive or negative overall effect?
Do you think these changes can be reversed?

5. What are your thoughts?

6. What does the science say?