… The outcome variables were broader in this study then they were in the study of Colcombe
and … A moderate effect size of 0.57, very similar to that observed by Colcombe and Kramer for …

The National Institute of Mental Health strategic plan for advancing psychiatric neuroscience
calls for an acceleration of discovery and the delineation of developmental trajectories for …

… be examined, the results of the Colcombe and Kramer (192) meta-… Colcombe and colleagues
(204) recently explored the … In a cross-sectional examination of 55 older adults, Colcombe …

Background. The present study examined whether aerobic fitness training of older humans
can increase brain volume in regions associated with age-related decline in both brain …

Cardiovascular fitness is thought to offset declines in cognitive performance, but little is known
about the cortical mechanisms that underlie these changes in humans. Research using …

Background. The human brain gradually loses tissue from the third decade of life onward,
with concomitant declines in cognitive performance. Given the projected rapid growth in aged …

This study investigated the hypothesis that age differences in memory performance may be
influenced by stereotype threat associated with negative cultural beliefs about the impact of …

Efforts to identify meaningful functional imaging-based biomarkers are limited by the ability
to reliably characterize inter-individual differences in human brain function. Although a …

In this manuscript we provide a brief review of the recent literature that has examined the
relationship among fitness training, cognition and brain. We began with a discussion of the non-…

In the first century, ce, the Roman satirist Juneval famously observed Orandum est, ut sit
mens sana in corpore sano, or “A sound mind in a sound body is something to be prayed for.” …