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The Monitor January 13, 2008
Today's Guests: -- DR. JOHN RATEY on exercise and your brain -- Journalist DORI SMITH investigates: Who counts in NH?
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<> 6:20 pm CDT -- DR. JOHN RATEY on exercise and your brain
Can exercise actually make your brain more agile? Pull you out of depression?
“There’s an avalanche of neuroscience to support that (physical) exercise is good for the brain,” says Dr. John Ratey.
Tonight, Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi asks Dr. Ratey about findings in his brand new book, "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain." The book explains how to beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever -- simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat.
New research has found that brain cell production can occur throughout life, even as we advance into old age. Exercise can help generate these new brain cells. In addition, exercise strengthens the connections between those cells (synaptic plasticity), providing more mental agility and actually allowing the brain to stay young even as the body ages.
In a journey through our mental circuits, Dr. Ratey will examine the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. He also cites the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, which has put this school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores.
John J. Ratey, MD, is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Driven to Distraction and A Users Guide to the Brain. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. BOOK:
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey, MD and Eric Hagerman
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