Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
From bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD comes a groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain.
Did you know that simply raising your heart rate and breaking a sweat can help you beat stress, improve your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever before? Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance, according to research.
In Spark, John J. Ratey, M.D., takes readers on a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to demonstrate that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to
addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's.
Spark is the first book to explore the relationship between exercise and the brain in depth, with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, which has ranked this school district of 19,000 students first in the world in science test scores). It will forever change the way you think about your morning run – or, for that matter, the way you think in general.