Mental & Physical Workout for Increased Cognitive Performance | Flourish with Diane Planidin | Ep120

2021-11-09

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If you don't know how to bounce back from your mental demons, try building your resistance with mental workouts. Sarah Peyton provided a wealth of insight last week on moving from self-sabotage to self-care. You can change the contract you have with yourself once you remember that the struggle is the feeling you get when you are on the right path. Just like exercising your physical muscles, you can exercise the neurons in your brain to build stronger connections and cognitive performance. "Our lives...

If you don't know how to bounce back from your mental demons, try building your resistance with mental workouts.

Sarah Peyton provided a wealth of insight last week on moving from self-sabotage to self-care. You can change the contract you have with yourself once you remember that the struggle is the feeling you get when you are on the right path.

Just like exercising your physical muscles, you can exercise the neurons in your brain to build stronger connections and cognitive performance.

"Our lives are crafted by our early experience" Sarah Peyton

"The amygdala doesn't know that time has passed." Sarah Peyton

A Scientific paper you may be interested in is in the US National Library of Medicine -

"New neurons are produced each day in the hippocampus through the process of neurogenesis. Both mental and physical training can modify this process by increasing the number of new cells that mature into functional neurons in the adult brain. However, the mechanisms whereby these increases occur are not necessarily the same. Physical activity, especially aerobic exercise greatly increases the number of new neurons that are produced in the hippocamal formation. In contrast, mental training via skill learning increases the numbers that survive, particularly when the training goals are challenging. Both manipulations can increase cognitive performance in the future, some of which are reportedly mediated by the presence of new neurons in the adult hippocampus. Based on these data, we suggest that a combination of mental and physical training, referred to here as MAP training, is more beneficial for neuronal recruitment and overall mental health than either activity alone." Mental and physical training increase hippocampal neurogenesis and facilitate learning. Neurogenesis is required for some, but not all, cognitive enhancing effects of training. Mental training has its greatest effect when difficult, but attainable. Larger effects may be observed following a combination of both mental and physical (MAP) training.

Full article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445739/

Citation: Curlik DM 2nd, Shors TJ. Training your brain: Do mental and physical (MAP) training enhance cognition through the process of neurogenesis in the hippocampus?. Neuropharmacology. 2013;64(1):506-514. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.07.027

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