Notes from Sources

Reynolds, Gretchen. "Getting a Brain Boost through Exercise." New York Times, 10 Apr. 2013.
Web. 30 Mar. 2016.
Reynolds article is about how exercise helps not only animals memory but humans as
well. They go on to show how the different experiments in humans and animals confirm the link
between exercise and cognitive growth. In one experiment it showed how the mice that would
run on the wheel would have a better memory than the mice that werent running on the wheel.
The purpose of this article is to show how exercise can help different brain functions to improve
ones memory.
This article links to my topic very well because of what the two different experiments are
showing. Even though they do the experiments on mice and elderly people it can still link to
people of all ages. If college students exercised more and their memory improved it could help
them study better and remember things easier that were said in class. Reynolds does a great job
of explaining how the links are made between the brain and exercise.
Godman, Heidi. Regular Exercise Changes the Brain to Improve Memory, Thinking Skills.
Harvard Health Publications. Harvard Medical School. 29 Oct. 2015. Web. 30 Mar. 2016
Godman starts out talking about all the many reasons people would like to exercise, then
points out a fact that many people dont know about. She talks about how, like her, peoples
memories start to fade and how exercise might be able to help that. There is not any exact
exercise that is supposed to work better but she gives the recommended amount of time to
exercise each week to help with memory. Her article is very informative on why and how
exercise can help the brain out. At the end, she gives some tips on what to do as far as exercising
and trying it out.

College students stress a lot during the day and its not good for them or their futures. Not
only can exercise help their memories but it can help with the stressful lives they lead. This
article shows that exercise can be a key to success while in college and hopefully after college as
well. Even though this article is more pointed in the direction of elderly people it can also have
some facts that would help the younger population as well.
Fox News. Can Exercise Make you Smarter? Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 19 May
2015. Web. 29 Mar. 2016
This video is very informative towards college students and many adults. It includes
information from a college professor who is a neuroscientist. She performed her own study on
the students in one of her undergraduate classes at New York University. She tested the students
on memorization before and after aerobic exercise, and the results increased after every class
once a week. She talks about how exercise helps the brain and all the many ways you can see
yourself improve with many other things other than your memory.
It has many facts about how exercise works on the brain. My main focus for my topic is
on college students, and this video talked a lot about how it helps us. It helps too that there is a
study she did on her students in college. This video teaches me different approaches to take on
how exercise can help the brain. Not only with memorization but also attention and mood which
are big contenders for college students. This video has many facts about the statistics of the brain
and exercise as well as the way it changes the brain.
Tomporowski, Phillip D. "Exercise And Cognition." Pediatric Exercise Science 28.1 (2016): 2327. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 4 Apr. 2016.

The peer-reviewed article talks mostly about how childrens brains and physical health. If
we dont get the right amount or kind of exercise as children we wont have good learning
abilities. The article talks about how there are different kinds of activities children can do they
will trigger different part of the brain. The article has many science-based experiments included
in with the many different facts about how physical activity plays a vital role in a childs
cognition.
We all start out as children and if we start out young getting the physical activity needed
for brains we could end up making healthy habits. If children can figure out that exercise is
helping them in school and keeps it a positive thing hopefully they can carry that with them the
rest of their lives. There are some children that dont get the right kind of exercise so young,
even if it took them all the way to college to grasp that concept, they can still start trying out the
new technique.
Clow, Angela and Sarah Edmunds. Physical Activity and Mental Health: Relationship Between
Physical Activity and Mental Health. Champaign: Angela Chow and Sarah Edmunds,
2013. Print. 1 Apr. 2016.
This book has many different concepts so I chose just to focus in on the main concept in
the first part and chapter. It puts together the relationship exercise has with our well-being.
Exercise plays a major role in our health, and without the right kind of exercise or any at all our
health can be in danger. It also talks about how there can be many things that will increase our
physical activity then, in turn, will improve our well-being and mental health. We have to be in
the right environment to want to engage in physical activity, and without that environment, our
mental health is in danger.

I picked this book because our mental health is very hard to keep in check while in
college. You hear a lot about college students binge drinking, which can lead to many life
altering choices. I think college students look to drink because our brains need a break, and
drinking gives us that relaxed feeling. Exercise helps out our brains and gives us that break that
we really need and helps us keep up with our mental health.