Friday, July 9, 2010

Phys Ed: Your Brain on Exercise

“Some of the most reverberant recent studies were performed at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. There, scientists have been manipulating the levels of bone-morphogenetic protein or BMP in the brains of laboratory mice. BMP, which is found in tissues throughout the body, affects cellular development in various ways, some of them deleterious. In the brain, BMP has been found to contribute to the control of stem cell divisions. Your brain, you will be pleased to learn, is...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/your-brain-on-exercise/?src=me&ref=homepage

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