New study claims that one workout can have great impacts on your brain

A research has been reviewed which revealed a wide variety of health benefits of working out. New York university team carried out a research, which studied both humans and animals to understand better how a single workout can have positive impacts on your brain and how the changes are long-lasting. There has already been a number of research and studies regarding health benefits of exercise and its impacts on various functions of brain like mood, memory, attention, reaction as well as creativity. “Exercise interventions are currently being used to help address everything from cognitive impairments in normal aging, minimal cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease to motor deficits in Parkinson’s disease and mood states in depression,” says Wendy A Suzuki, principal investigator of the new study, “Our review highlights the neural mechanisms and pathways by which exercise might produce these clinically relevant effects.” The researchers analysed a wide range of brain imaging and electrophysiological studies, including electroencephalography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, functional near-infrared spectroscopy and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neurophysiological and neurochemical changes after acute exercise represent that many areas of brain are activated after a workout session.