Enhancing Cognitive Functioning and Brain Plasticity

by Arthur F. Kramer, Leonard W. Poon, Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko

Enhancing Cognitive Functioning and Brain Plasticity offers a synergistic view of the complex role of exercise, physical activity, and intellectual stimulation in the cognitive and brain functioning of older adults.The text examines exercise and nonexercise interventions shown to influence cognition and brain plasticity in elderly humans and older animals, and it explains how state-of-the-art neuroimaging measures are used in the study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736057919
• ISBN13: 9780736057912
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher