Your Brain on Exercise

Cover
Your Brain on Exercise
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgment
Introduction
Part I: The high cost of exercise
	1 Learning from The Biggest Loser
	2 The devil is in the details
	3 A long time ago
	4 Making energy for exercise
	5 Exercise requires eating and breathing
	6 It’s not good to be a male
Part II: Your brain on exercise
	7 BDNF: Much ado about something?
	8 Muscle signals to your brain
	9 The paradox molecule: Interleukin-​6
	10 A few facts about your brain
	11 How your brain responds to exercise
	12 Exercise for the depressed brain
	13 Exercise for the child’s brain
	14 Exercise for the chemo brain
	15 Exercise and pain
	16 Exercise for the injured brain
	17 Diet and exercise following brain injury
	18 Exercising the older brain
Part III: Why exercise?
Further reading
Index