Young runners remember better when old

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3139, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Exercise early in life seems to have lifelong benefits for the brain, in rats at least. Martin Wojtowicz's team split 80 young male rats into two equal groups, and placed running wheels in the cages of one group for a period of six weeks. Around four months after--when the rats had reached middle age--the team taught all the rats to associate an electric shock with being in a specific box. When placed in the box, they froze with fear.