Exercise During Adolescence may Prevent Schizophrenia by Colleen Fleiss on December 16, 2020 at 10:05 PM
During adolescence, low intensity exercise was found to have protective effects in a mouse model of schizophrenia, said University of Tsukuba researchers.
Although schizophrenia is increasingly understood as a neurodevelopmental disorder, environmental factors are known to play an important role in the disease onset and progression.
In a study published this month in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, researchers from the University of Tsukuba have revealed that low-intensity exercise during adolescence, which is a critical developmental period, significantly reduced abnormal behaviors in a mouse model of schizophrenia.