This Is Your Brain On Exercise...
Researchers have conducted experiments to see the effect that exercise has on human vision.
It's well known and scientifically established through research and data that exercise has numerous beneficial effects on a person's health. The benefits range from reducing the risk of heart disease and diabetes to even improving one's sleep or sleep cycles. Despite all the previous mentioned scientific evidence, exercise benefit for vision has yet to be fully investigated...until now! Utilizing recent research conducted on mouse and fly brains that discovered a peak in neural process during activity, psychologists at UC Santa Barbara set out to discover if the same was true in humans.
In order to investigate the effects, the psychologists gathered 18 volunteers and wired them to a heart rate monitor, an EEG and a scalp cap with 64 electrodes to monitor brain activity. The volunteers performed high intensity and low intensity activities on a stationary bike. The results that they discovered were similar to the previous experiments on mice and flies, as they found that low intensity activity enhanced visual cortex activity. The researchers, however, do not yet understand the mechanism by which this enhancement occurs. Despite the lack of knowledge in regards to the mechanism, this experiment provides further reinforcement that exercise is beneficial to one's health.
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