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Lexington Reads! Dr. Wendy Suzuki on "Exercise, Creativity and the Brain"

Can exercise improve your brain power?  Dr. Wendy Suzuki, an award-winning neuroscientist and distinguished university professor wanted to find out.  So she created a class entitled "Can Exercise Change Your Brain?" and used her students at New York University as research subjects. 

The results of this research are provocative, challenging and exciting. In this talk, Dr. Suzuki will describe her research, with special emphasis on understanding the role of aerobic exercise in improving learning, memory… and creativity.

Currently Dr. Suzuki holds a faculty position in the Center for Neural Science at New York University, where she also runs an active research lab. Her research focuses on understanding the patterns of brain activity underlying long-term memory as well as the role of aerobic exercise in improving brain functions. Learn how this exciting new research can help you have a more creative brain!
 

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