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Feb. 04, 2011
Walking Your Way To A Bigger Brain
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| A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that adults who walked for 40 minutes, three times a week, for a year, had brain growth in a region of the hippocampus -- an of the brain associated with spatial memory. Study author Arthur Kramer and psychologist Margaret Gatz discuss the research, and other ways to keep aging brains healthy. |
Produced by Flora Lichtman, Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video
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Arthur Kramer
Director, Beckman Institute
Professor of Neuroscience
University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois -
Margaret Gatz
Director, Education Core, USC Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Professor of Psychology, Gerontology and Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
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