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The ActiveBrains-SmarterMove International Seminar “Exercise, Cognition and Brain in Childhood and Older Age”

  • Fecha: 8th March 2018
  • Lugar: iMUDS, Health Science Technological Park (PTS), Granada, Spain
  • Organized by the PROFITH research group under the umbrella of the UCEES (Unidad Científica de Excelencia: Ejercicio y Salud), and with the support from the “ Visiting Scholars” funding program of the University of Granada

ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED

Programa

  • 09:30-10:30 Multi-speaker lecture: The latest findings from the ActiveBrains project
    • Francisco B. Ortega: Seminar Opening , and current status of the ActiveBrains-SmarterMove project.
    • Irene Esteban Cornejo: Physical fitness components and white matter volume in children.
    • Cristina Cadenas Sánchez: Fitness and total brain volumes in children.
    • Patricio Solis Urra: Early life factors and brain structure in children.
    • Juan Pablo Zavala Crichton: Sedentary behaviour and brain volume in children.
    • Mireia Adelantado Renau: Inflammatory biomarkers, growth factors and brain volume.
    • Luis Gracia Marco: Body composition and brain volume in children.
    • María Rodriguez Ayllon: Physical activity and white matter integrity in children.
    • José Mora González: Fitness, physical activity and neuroelectric activity in children.
  • 10:45-11:45 Keynote lecture. Effects of physical exercise and fitness on brain in old age: the state of the art and future projects Prof. Kirk Erickson, Pittsburgh, USA
  • 11:45-12:00: Wrap-up and seminar closing
  • 9th March 2018 at 9:30 am.
    • Cristina Cadenas Sánchez PhD defence‘Physical fitness, academic achievement and brain in children’. Salón de Grados, Faculty of Sport Sciences

Registration: Free of charge

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Contact e-mail: profith@ugr.es
Web: http://profith.ugr.es

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Facultad de Ciencias del Deporte
Departamento de Educación Física y Deportiva