Exercise and Cognitive Processes

principal investigator :

Isabel Portell
isabel.portell@uab.es

Department:

Psicobiologia

Center:

Institut de Neurociències

Institution:

UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Members: 4

Research lines:

Memory facilitation and cognitive deficits reversal in control and in brain damaged animals: exercise and adrenaline.

Areas:

 Neuronal death   Cognition 

Keywords:

Physical exercise, epinephrine, traumatic brain injury, learning and memory, object recognition memory, cognitive deficits, neurogenesis, neuroprotection.

Publications:

Jacotte-Simancas, A.; Costa-Miserachs, D.; Torras-Garcia, M, Coll-Andreu, M;Portell-Cortés, I. (2013).Effects of voluntary physical exercise and post-training epinephrine on acquisition in a spatial task in the Barnes maze. Behavioural Brain Research. 247, pp. 178 - 181. 

Jurado-Berbel, P.; Costa-Miserachs, D.; Torras-Garcia, M.; Coll-Andreu, M.; Portell-Cortés, I. (2010). Standard object recognition memory and ''what'' and ''where'' components: Improvement by post-training epinephrine in highly habituated rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 207, pp. 44 - 50. 

 García-Capdevila, S.; Portell-Cortés, I.; Torras-Garcia, M.; Coll-Andreu, M.; Costa-Miserachs, D. (2009). Effects of long-term voluntary exercise on learning and memory processes: dependency of the task and level of exercise. Behavioural Brain Research. 202, pp. 162 - 170.


 

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