{"id":651,"date":"2012-11-15T01:47:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/?p=651"},"modified":"2013-04-15T02:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T07:06:26","slug":"maintain-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/maintain-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain News:  Want to Maintain the Size of Your Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, have released findings from their 3-year study.\u00c2\u00a0 Over the 3-year duration of the study, the Researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Psychologybrain2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-525 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 20px 5px;\" title=\"Brain News:  Exercise for a Larger Brain\" alt=\"Brain News:  Exercise for a Larger Brain\" src=\"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Psychologybrain2-300x300.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Psychologybrain2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Psychologybrain2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Psychologybrain2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a>found that those who participated in more physical-activity experienced less <i>brain<\/i> shrinkage than did those study subjects who exercised less.\u00c2\u00a0 The brain-size variation was documented by MRI scanning.<\/p>\n<p>Those in charge of the study examined MRI scans and records of 638 older adults.\u00c2\u00a0 Researchers also inquired of the subjects about other routine behaviors.\u00c2\u00a0 These were recorded and included as data for this study:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0exercise habits<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0engaging in social activities<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0participation in mentally-stimulating activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Study findings indicated the importance of consistent, persistent exercise.\u00c2\u00a0 This research demonstrated that regular exercise may be better than social or mental activities for protecting older adults from having their brain shrink as an effect of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, have released findings from their 3-year study.\u00c2\u00a0 Over the 3-year duration of the study, the Researchers found that those who participated in more physical-activity experienced less brain shrinkage than did those study subjects who exercised less.\u00c2\u00a0 The brain-size variation was documented by MRI scanning. Those in charge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-coaching","category-physical-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealth-online.com\/mentalhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}