Running Helps Motor Skill Learning

A group of midbrain neurons expressing acetylcholine (blue) are made to express another type of neurotransmitter, glutamate (yellow). photo: UCSD

Because we all need one more reason to get off the couch and on the treadmill or the empty trail while we work from home, researchers at the University of California, Davis have found that the neurotransmitters in our brains actually switch into a hyper-learning mode after aerobic exercise. Their new study was just published in Nature...