Differences in the prefrontal cortex responses of healthy young men performing either water-based or land-based exercise at light to moderate intensity
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Collection
Exercise-Related Changes to Brain: From Physiology to Behaviour
We invite you to contribute to a new Topical Collection entitled “Exercise-Related Changes to Brain: From Physiology to Behaviour” in Experimental Brain Research. There is burgeoning evidence that exercise improves brain health via structural and functional changes that promote improved cognition and executive function. The goal of this collection is to better understand the mechanisms and contributing cause(s) by which exercise improves cognition.
All accepted papers must have some focus on exercise and brain-behaviour relations to identify the exercise-related (neuro)physiological mechanisms that improve behaviour (i.e., cognition) and determine how moderators such as exercise duration, frequency and intensity influence brain-behaviour relations. Studies that employ physiological and/or structural and functional imaging techniques to identify exercise-related changes in brain-behaviour relations are of particular interest; as are exercise manipulations that aim to improve cognitive performance and executive function; and exercise-related brain-behaviour benefits in clinical populations.
Review articles, mini reviews, and original research articles can be submitted to the collection.
If you are interested in contributing to this topical collection, please contact one of the collection’s Guest Editors – Dr. Matthew Heath (mheath2@uwo.ca) or Dr. Lindsay Nagamatsu (lnagamat@uwo.ca). Please note that articles submitted to this collection will be published on a continuous publication schedule once they are accepted and note that we invite submissions up to March 31, 2023.
Editors
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Matthew Heath
I am a Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Western University. My research has examined the visual control of goal-directed limb and eye movements and more recently focused on how single and chronic exercise interventions impact cerebral blood flow and executive function.
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Lindsay Nagamatsu
Lindsay Nagamatsu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology at Western University in Canada. She completed her doctoral work in Cognitive Psychology at the University of British Columbia and her postdoctoral training at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on examining the effects of exercise on cognition and brain health in at-risk populations, using neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI and EEG to examine underlying functional and structural changes.
