Keep running in that wheel to grow new brain cells!
July 1st 2007 08:57
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BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhuanet) -- A new study of wheel-running rats reveals exercise not only fights depression, it also helps the brain grow new cells.
Astrid Bjornebekk of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and her colleagues studied rats that had been genetically altered to exhibit depressive behaviors, plus a second group of control rats. Some of the rats had free access to running wheels for 30 days and others did not.
Then the scientists used a standard "swim test" to find out if running turned depressed rats into cheerful rodents.
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Comment by tlcorbin-raginravensview
I'd like to reserve a few minutes for next month, but hold my pool reservation.
BTW, is that a mob hit rat?
Raven
Comment by katyzzz
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Reservation accepted but I'm afraid with such a barely committed plan you will not achieve much, just marginally better than everyone else at present.
I don't know about what you say but I do know it's not a bob it rab, and doesn't have a cotton tail.
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Comment by Miswanderlust
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Oh this is a great post. I enjoyed the read very much!
Mis
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I'm a cheerful little rodent myself.
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Comment by Jessicca
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Ok... of to get a pair of running shoes again... lol...
Great article you've found. Thank you so much for sharing.
Stuning signature tune too, you've indeed got my attention with that first, then the title of the article.
Have a blessed week ahead.
Jessicca
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