[shrinkermd]

While it was once assumed the brain did not generate new brain cells, it is now assumed that the brain can generate new brain cells. This is called neurogenesis.

[Lazamataz]

While it was once assumed the brain did not generate new brain cells, it is now assumed that the brain can generate new brain cells to assume that it can generate new assumptions about brain cells that assume about brains the new generated assumptions about brain cells in the generation of new brains and assumptions about brains and new cells and generation of new assumptions about brain cells that are new.

[tcostell]

Then again:

Maybe Not.

[Red Badger]

No wonder all those HS and college jocks were so damn smart!...............

[Thrownatbirth]

A 2005 study on rats found that stimulation of the brain’s receptors for marijuana increased neurogenesis.

That will make going to the gym a little more problematic for some. :-)

[TexCon]

“This spring, neuroscientists at Columbia published a study”

I bet these guys never work out.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

But using up all that extra oxygen, won’t it damage the planet? It seems sort of, you know, ecologically irresponsible.

[Jack Hammer]

Proof of this thesis, albeit anecdotal proof, is furnished by the high number of geniuses playing professional football.

[Fairview]

From the article:

In a study published this year, an ingredient in cocoa, epicatechin, was shown to improve spatial memory in mice, especially among those that exercised.

Thank God, another excellent excuse to eat chocolate! "I had to, Doctor, I needed the chocolate for my memory."

[Billthedrill]

Uh-oh. I think I owe about 15 million pushups. What was the question again?

[Grammy]

The spelling police might point out that ex(c)ercise might not help after all!

[scan58]

ping (NYT, I know...)

[oh8eleven]

Ahhh, I think this story is a couple of thousand years old ... "Mens Sana in Corpore Sano" - a sound mind, within a sound body.