The Active Brain

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Engaging in physical activity not only affects one's body, but it also has wide ranging effects on the brain and cognitive functions. This course gives students an overview of the current understanding of the cognitive and neural consequences of engaging in physical activity. The approach will be multidisciplinary, including not only cognitive, systems, and clinical neuroscience approaches to studying the effects of physical activity on behavior and brain function across species, but also more applied approaches relating these effects to performance in real world settings.