Exercise can help the brain to establish new neural pathways, and it only takes a week to form a habit. Exercise can be a self-reinforcing behavior that helps you overcome genes.
Exercise prepares our brains and improves their potential to record and process new information.
In 1960s, psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley, used an experimental model called "environmental optimization" as a means to test "use dependency plasticity".
The researchers set toys, obstacles, hidden food and wheels in the mouse cage. The researchers also gathered mice together so that they could socialize and play.
Experiments show that the brain structure and function of mice have changed when they live in more sensory and social stimuli. Not only can mice finish their studies better, but their brains are much heavier than those of mice living in empty cages.
Research shows that there are significant differences between swimmers and non-swimmers, regardless of social and economic background.
The researchers selected 180 children aged 3, 4 and 5 to take the intensive swimming test regularly. The test results show that children's visual motor skills, such as paper-cutting, color matching, drawing lines and models and many math-related tasks, are significantly higher, and they are also better at oral expression, literacy and arithmetic.
Swimming is not only beneficial to children's physical health, but also immeasurable to their mental health. Swimming acts as a social lubricant, introducing you and your children to other people with similar interests and lifestyles, and consolidating children's effective social activities outside school.