The Exercise Effect on Mental Health Neurobiological Mechanisms [Paperback]

The Exercise Effect on Mental Healthcontains the most recent and thorough overview of the links between exercise and mental health, and the underlying mechanisms of the brain. The text will enhance interested clinicians and researchers understanding of the neurobiological effect of exercise on mental health. Editors Budde and Wegner have compiled a comprehensive review of the ways in which physical activity impacts the neurobiological mechanisms of the most common psychological and psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. This text presents a rigorously evidence-based case for exercise as an inexpensive, time-saving, and highly effective treatment for those suffering from mental illness and distress.

Preface: Editorial: The Exercise Effect on Mental Health  Section 1: The benefits of exercise- A theoretical introduction (Mechanisms)  1. Epidemiology of common mental disorders Robert Kohn  2. Neurobiological changes as an explanation of benefits of exercise Terry McMorris & Jo Corbett  3. Causality in the associations between exercise, personality, and mental health Marleen DeMoor & Eco de Geus  4. Treating depression with exercise--an immune perspective Aderbal Silva Aguiar Junior & Alexandra Latini  Section 2: Exerciseeffects in cognition and motor learning  7. Physical exercise and cognitive enhancement David Moreau  8. Exercise induced improvement in motor learning Nico Lehmann & Marco Taubert  9. Exercise effects in cognition and motor learning Megan Herting  Section 4: Sport vs. exercise and their effects on emotions and psychological diseases  10. Exercise in the preventl3-