Environmental Factors Promoting Neural Plasticity: Insights from Animal and Human Studies

Paternal environmental enrichment transgenerationally alters affective behavioral and neuroendocrine phenotypes

(2017) Shlomo Yeshurun et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Exercise alters mouse sperm small noncoding RNAs and induces a transgenerational modification of male offspring conditioned fear and anxiety

(2017) A K Short et al.   Translational Psychiatry

Environmental Enrichment Provides a Cognitive Reserve to be Spent in the Case of Brain Lesion

(2017) Laura Mandolesi et al.   JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE

Exposure to an enriched environment up to middle age allows preservation of spatial memory capabilities in old age

(2016) Fanny Fuchs et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Rodent models for Alzheimer’s disease drug discovery

(2015) Daniela Puzzo et al.   Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Environmental Enrichment Ameliorates Behavioral Impairments Modeling Schizophrenia in Mice Lacking Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5

(2015) Emma L Burrows et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Aerobic fitness is associated with greater white matter integrity in children

(2014) Laura Chaddock-Heyman et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Systematic review of strengths and limitations of Randomized Controlled Trials for non-pharmacological interventions in mild cognitive impairment: Focus on Alzheimer’s disease

(2014) T. Horr et al.   Journal of Nutrition Health & Aging

Astrocytic plasticity as a possible mediator of the cognitive improvements after environmental enrichment in aged rats

(2014) P. Sampedro-Piquero et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Pre-reproductive maternal enrichment influences offspring developmental trajectories: motor behavior and neurotrophin expression

(2014) Paola Caporali et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Exercise attenuates neuropathology and has greater benefit on cognitive than motor deficits in the R6/1 Huntington's disease mouse model

(2013) David J. Harrison et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Bridging animal and human models of exercise-induced brain plasticity

(2013) Michelle W. Voss et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Neurobiological markers of exercise-related brain plasticity in older adults

(2012) Michelle W. Voss et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY

Environmental enrichment prevents astroglial pathological changes in the hippocampus of APP transgenic mice, model of Alzheimer's disease

(2012) Juan Beauquis et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Cognitive reserve in ageing and Alzheimer's disease

(2012) Yaakov Stern   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Transient enriched housing before amyloidosis onset sustains cognitive improvement in Tg2576 mice

(2012) Laure Verret et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Physical training exerts neuroprotective effects in the regulation of neurochemical factors in an animal model of Parkinson’s disease

(2012) T. Tuon et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

The cognitive cost of sleep lost

(2011) John G. McCoy et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Aerobic fitness is associated with greater efficiency of the network underlying cognitive control in preadolescent children

(2011) M.W. Voss et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Neuroanatomical Correlates of Cognitive Reserve in Alzheimer Disease

(2011) Laura Serra et al.   REJUVENATION RESEARCH

Metabolic benefits of resistance training and fast glycolytic skeletal muscle

(2010) Nathan K. LeBrasseur et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Exercise effects on motor and affective behavior and catecholamine neurochemistry in the MPTP-lesioned mouse

(2010) Lori M. Gorton et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Mechanisms mediating brain and cognitive reserve: Experience-dependent neuroprotection and functional compensation in animal models of neurodegenerative diseases

(2010) Jess Nithianantharajah et al.   PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Morphological changes in hippocampal astrocytes induced by environmental enrichment in mice

(2009) Giordano G. Viola et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

On whether the environmental enrichment may provide cognitive and brain reserves

(2009) Laura Petrosini et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS

Biological Mechanisms of Physical Activity in Preventing Cognitive Decline

(2009) I. Lista et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY

Increased Concentrations of Nerve Growth Factor and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in the Rat Cerebellum After Exposure to Environmental Enrichment

(2009) Francesco Angelucci et al.   CEREBELLUM

Exercise Training for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

(2009) Thomas H. Marwick et al.   CIRCULATION

Aerobic fitness is associated with hippocampal volume in elderly humans

(2009) Kirk I. Erickson et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Layer and regional effects of environmental enrichment on the pyramidal neuron morphology of the rat

(2009) Francesca Gelfo et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Cognitive reserve☆

(2009) Yaakov Stern   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Wheel running from a juvenile age delays onset of specific motor deficits but does not alter protein aggregate density in a mouse model of Huntington's disease

(2008) Anton van Dellen et al.   BMC NEUROSCIENCE

Physical Activity Participation May Offset Some of the Negative Impact of Diabetes on Cognitive Function

(2008) Sheri R. Colberg et al.   Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Is Sleep Essential?

(2008) Chiara Cirelli et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Sleeping Well, Aging Well: A Descriptive and Cross-Sectional Study of Sleep in “Successful Agers” 75 and Older

(2007) Henry C. Driscoll et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY

Differential effect of environment enrichment and social isolation on depressive-like behavior, spontaneous activity and serotonin and norepinephrine concentration in prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum

(2007) Juan C. Brenes et al.   PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR