{"id":1818,"date":"2014-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu\/2014\/02\/how-inactivity-changes-the-brain\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T09:14:41","slug":"how-inactivity-changes-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neurodegenerationresearch.eu\/nb\/2014\/02\/how-inactivity-changes-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"How Inactivity Changes the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A number of studies have shown that exercise can remodel the brain by prompting the creation of new brain cells and inducing other changes. Now it appears that inactivity, too, can remodel the brain, according to a new report. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study, which was conducted in rats but likely has implications for people too, the researchers say, found that being sedentary changes the shape of certain neurons in ways that significantly affect not just the brain but the heart as well. The findings may help to explain, in part, why a sedentary lifestyle is so bad for us. <\/p>\n<p>Source:&amp;nbsp; <link http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/22\/how-inactivity-changes-the-brain\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0 - external-link-new-window \"Opens external link in new window\">New York Times Blogs<\/link><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of studies have shown that exercise can remodel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neurodegenerationresearch.eu\/nb\/2014\/02\/how-inactivity-changes-the-brain\/\">View Post<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Inactivity Changes the Brain - 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