Exercise on Brain Health

Gathers the last research evidence on the neuroprotective effects of physical exercise on disease and illness

Kwok Fai So (Volume editor), Sonata Yau (Volume editor)

9780128169674

Hardback, published 13 October 2019

414 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.75 kg

Approx.400 pages

1. Exercise for Parkinson's disease Margaret K.Y. Mak and Irene S.K. Wong-Yu 2. Exercise and Parkinson’s disease Xiaojiao Xu, Zhenfa Fu and Weidong Le 3. Wearable technological platform for multi-domain diagnostic and exercise interventions in Parkinson’s disease Bin Hu and Taylor Chomiak 4. Active body, healthy brain: Exercise for healthy cognitive aging Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Cindy Barha and Ryan S. Falck 5. Exercise (Qigong) on chronic fatigue syndrome Jessie S. M. Chan, Siu-Man Ng, Lai-Ping Yuen and Cecilia L. W. Chan 6. The beneficial effects of Qigong on elderly depression Sunny H.W. Chan and Hector W.H. Tsang 7. Exercise on bipolar disorder in humans Kangguang Lin and Tao Liu 8. The effects and potential mechanisms of locomotor training on improvements of functional recovery after spinal cord injury Panpan Yu, Wei Zhang, Yansheng Liu, Caihong Sheng, Kwok-Fai So, Libing Zhou and Hui Zhu 9. Exercise-driven restoration of the alcohol-damaged brain Rebecca K. West, Laian Z. Najjar and J. Leigh Leasure 10. Exercise and substance abuse Li Zhang and Ti-Fei Yuan 11. Adiponectin, exercise and eye diseases Hong-Ying Li, Xi Hong, Qian-Qian Cao and Kwok-Fai So 12. Modulation of synaptic plasticity by exercise Luis Bettio, Jonathan S. Thacker, Craig Hutton and Brian R. Christie 13. Exercise, spinogenesis and cognitive functions Li Zhang and Kwok-Fai So 14. Potential exerkines for physical exercise-elicited pro-cognitive effects: Insight from clinical and animal research Thomas Ho-Yin Lee, Douglas Affonso Formolo, Tammie Kong, Samantha Wing-Yan Lau, Charlotte Sze-Lok Ho, Rachel Yan Hei Leung, Felix Hin-Yan Hung and Suk-Yu Yau

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN]