Publications by authors named "Emily K Puchalski"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how aerobic exercise affects brain health, particularly focusing on neurogenesis (the birth of new neurons) and cognitive performance in mice.
- It reveals that exercise enhances blood vessel density in specific areas of the brain (dentate gyrus and striatum) and improves cognitive tasks (like navigating a maze) in one strain of mice (C57BL/6J), while another strain (B6D2F1/J) showed increased neurogenesis but not blood vessel density.
- The findings indicate that the cognitive benefits of exercise may be linked to this increased vascular density and that new neurons play a significant role in the brain's response to exercise, particularly in high-activity situations.
