Aerobic Exercise and Human Visual Cortex Neuroplasticity: A Narrative Review

There is compelling evidence from animal models that physical exercise can enhance visual cortex neuroplasticity. In this narrative review, we explored whether exercise has the same effect in humans. We found that while some studies report evidence consistent with exercise-induced enhancement of hum...

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Autores principales: Abuleil, Dania, Thompson, Benjamin, Dalton, Kristine
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9338869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35915651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/6771999
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description There is compelling evidence from animal models that physical exercise can enhance visual cortex neuroplasticity. In this narrative review, we explored whether exercise has the same effect in humans. We found that while some studies report evidence consistent with exercise-induced enhancement of human visual cortex neuroplasticity, others report no effect or even reduced neuroplasticity following exercise. Differences in study methodology may partially explain these varying results. Because the prospect of exercise increasing human visual cortex neuroplasticity has important implications for vision rehabilitation, additional research is required to resolve this discrepancy in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-93388692022-07-31 Aerobic Exercise and Human Visual Cortex Neuroplasticity: A Narrative Review Abuleil, Dania Thompson, Benjamin Dalton, Kristine Neural Plast Review Article There is compelling evidence from animal models that physical exercise can enhance visual cortex neuroplasticity. In this narrative review, we explored whether exercise has the same effect in humans. We found that while some studies report evidence consistent with exercise-induced enhancement of human visual cortex neuroplasticity, others report no effect or even reduced neuroplasticity following exercise. Differences in study methodology may partially explain these varying results. Because the prospect of exercise increasing human visual cortex neuroplasticity has important implications for vision rehabilitation, additional research is required to resolve this discrepancy in the literature. Hindawi 2022-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9338869/ /pubmed/35915651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/6771999 Text en Copyright © 2022 Dania Abuleil et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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