"Exercise May Help Seniors With Word, Memory Problems" - Steven Reinberg
Physical activity is tied to a host of benefits. Now, a small study finds that healthy older people who exercise regularly have fewer problems with word retrieval. Samuel Gandy, MD, PhD, professor of neurology, psychiatry and associate director of Alzheimer’s disease research center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is a believer is exercise too. “I believe that the study results are credible and important. Physical exercise is probably the best brain drug we have.” Dr. Gandy said efforts are underway to understand the molecular neurobiology of exercise’s effects on the brain. Research has shown that physical exercise stimulates production of a brain-derived nerve growth factor capable of staving off brain aging in apes, he added.
- Samuel Gandy, MD, PhD, Professor, Neurology, Psychiatry, Associate Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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