References
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O'Connor, P.,J., Herring, M. P., & Caravalho, A. (2010). Mental health benefits of strength training in adults. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 4(5), 377-396. doi:10.1177/1559827610368771
Patel, A., Keogh, J. W. L., Kolt, G. S., & Schofield, G. M. (2013). The long-term effects of a primary care physical activity intervention on mental health in low-active, community-dwelling older adults. Aging & Mental Health, 17(6), 766-772. doi:10.1080/13607863.2013.781118
What Is Mental Health? (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/what-is-mental-health
Anxiety:
Asmundson, G. J. G., Fetzner, M. G., Deboer, L. B., Powers, M. B., Otto, M. W., & Smits, J. A. J. (2013). Let's get physical: A contemporary review of the anxiolytic effects of exercise for anxiety and its disorders. Depression and Anxiety, 30(4), 362-373. doi:10.1002/da.22043
Craske, Michelle G, Prof. Stein, Murray B, Prof. (2016). Anxiety. Lancet, The, 388(10063), 3048-3059. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30381-6
Depression:
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), Fifth edition. 2013.
Exercises:
Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans 2nd Edition. (2018). Retrieved from https://health.gov/paguidelines/second-edition/pdf/Physical_Activity_Guidelines_2nd_edition.pdf
Protection Against Aging:
Colcombe, S. J., Kramer, A. F., Erickson, K. I., Scalf, P., Mcauley, E., Cohen, N. J., . . . Elavsky, S. (2004). Cardiovascular fitness, cortical plasticity, and aging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(9), 3316. doi:10.1073/pnas.0400266101
Erickson, K. I., Voss, M. W., Ruchika, S. P., Basak, C., Szabo, A., Chaddock, L., . . . Kramer, A. F. (2011). Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(7), 3017. doi:10.1073/pnas.1015950108
Facts and Figures. (2015). Retrieved from https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/facts-figures
Hötting, K., & Röder, B. (2013). Beneficial effects of physical exercise on neuroplasticity and cognition. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(9), 2243-2257. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.04.005
Intlekofer, K. A., & Cotman, C. W. (2013). Exercise counteracts declining hippocampal function in aging and alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of Disease, 57, 47.