Open AccessExercise is good also for a healthy hippocampus
Author(s) -
Mustafa Canbolat,
Alex Kafkas,
Mehmet Fatih Erbay,
Deniz Şenol,
Furkan Cevirgen,
Pelin Esmeray Şenol,
Davut Özbağ
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bratislavské lekárske listy/bratislava medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1336-0345
pISSN - 0006-9248
DOI - 10.4149/bll_2019_123
Subject(s) - hippocampus , neurogenesis , significant difference , psychology , sports science , medicine , physiology , neuroscience
The aim of the study was to compare the hippocampus sizes of healthy medical faculty students, who were exposed to an intense data input and who underwent serious learning activity and those of healthy sport faculty students who did sports regularly by using MR images and to examine the relationship between a hippocampus size and intelligence.