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VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF THE RESEARCH ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND CHILDHOOD COGNITIVE AND BRAIN HEALTH
Author(s) -
Hillman Charles H.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
monographs of the society for research in child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1540-5834
pISSN - 0037-976X
DOI - 10.1111/mono.12134
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , merge (version control) , causality (physics) , brain function , developmental psychology , context (archaeology) , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , computer science , information retrieval
This chapter serves as a summary to the monograph. The main purpose is to concisely merge the individual chapters into a cohesive summary around markers of health behaviors and their relation to childhood cognition and brain health. In addition, future directions for research in this area are briefly discussed with the goal of shaping future research in several directions. Issues surrounding the need for causality and ethical considerations are also described. Finally, this chapter places the link between health behaviors and cognition within the greater context of the educational environment, lifelong health, and effective function.