Integrated Brain and Body Exercises Enhance Cognitive Capacities
Integrated Brain and Body Exercises Enhance Cognitive Capacities
2 Pages©2012 Becaid LLC Integrated Brain and Body Exercises Enhance Cognitive Capacities Twenty-two children (6 to 10 years old, 10 boys) participated in a 4-week program with two 45- minute computer periods and two 45-minute exercise periods each day at the Chinese National Sports University in Beijing after parents provided informed written consent consistent with University procedures. Children were either enrolled by their parents as paid participants, referred from a school for children of migrant workers, or referred from a psychiatric clinic for children with ADHD or related problems with approximately equal numbers in each group. Nineteen of the 22 who enrolled completed the program. Two of the children who did not complete the program were a brother and sister
