Henning Boecker, Marcel Daamen, Lukas Kunz, Melanie Geiß, Moritz Müller, Thomas Neuss, Leonie Henschel, Rüdiger Stirnberg, Neeraj Upadhyay, Lukas Scheef, Jason A Martin, Tony Stöcker, Alexander Radbruch, Ulrike Attenberger, Nikolai Axmacher, Angelika Maurer
Physical exercise studies are generally underrepresented in young adulthood. Seventeen subjects were randomized into an intervention group (24.2 ± 3.9 years; 3 trainings/week) and 10 subjects into a passive control group (23.7 ± 4.2 years), over a duration of 6 months. Every two months, performance diagnostics, computerized spatial memory tests, and 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging were conducted. Here we find that the intervention group, compared to controls, showed increased cardiorespiratory fitness, spatial memory performance and subregional hippocampal volumes over time...
March 5, 2024: Communications Biology