BookJunjie Xiao, editor.
Summary: This book shares the latest findings on exercise and its benefits in preventing and ameliorating numerous diseases that are of worldwide concern. Addressing the role of exercise training as an effective method for the prevention and treatment of various disease, the book is divided into eleven parts: 1) An Overview of the Beneficial Effects of Exercise on Health and Performance, 2) The Physiological Responses to Exercise, 3) Exercise and Metabolic Diseases, 4) Exercise and Cardiovascular Diseases, 5) Exercise and Musculoskeletal Diseases, 6) Exercise and Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases, 7) Exercise and the Respiration System, 8) Exercise and Immunity, 9) Exercise and HIV/AIDS, 10) Exercise and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, and 11) Future Prospects. Given its scope, the book will be particularly useful for researchers and students in the fields of physical therapy, physiology, medicine, genetics and cell biology, as well as researchers and physicians with a range of medical specialties. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
[I]. Overview: An overview of the beneficial effects of exercise on health and performance / Andreas Kramer. [II]. The physiologicla responses to exercise: Type of exercise training and training methods / Sascha Ketelhut, Reinhard G. Ketelhut
Molecular mechanisms mediating adaptation to exercise / Zahra Gholamnezhad, Bruno Mégarbane, Ramin Rezaee
Exercise and organ cross talk / Zhiqing Fan, Minjun Xu. [III]. Exercise and metabolic diseases: Exercise and hyperlipidemia / Nana He, Honghua Ye
Exercise and type 2 diabetes / Sasan Amanat, Simin Ghahri, Aria Dianatinasab, Mohammad Fararouei, Mostafa Dianatinasab
Exercise and type 1 diabetes / Xiya Lu, Cuimei Zhao
Exercise and polycystic ovary syndrome / Amie Woodward, Markos Klonizakis, David Brook
Exercise and insulin resistance / Stephney Whillier. [IV]. Exercise and cardiovascular diseases: Exercise and hypertension / Şeref Alpsoy
Exercise and coronary heart disease / Aydin Akyuz
Exercise and peripheral arteriosclerosis / Demet Ozkaramanli Gur
Exercise and stroke / Carmen García-Cabo, Elena López-Cancio
Exercise and cardiovascular protection / Guohua Li, Jia Li, Feng Gao. [IX]. Exercise and HIV/AIDS: Effects of exercise on the immune function, quality of life, and mental health in HIV/AIDS individuals / Mostafa Dianatinasab, Simin Ghahri, Aria Dianatinasab, Sasan Amanat, Mohammad Fararouei. [V]. Exercise and musculoskeletal diseases: Exercise and osteoarthritis / Lei Chen, Yan Yu
Exercise and chronic pain / Anna Borisovskaya, Elizabeth Chmelik, Ashwin Karnik
Exercise and muscle atrophy / Nana He, Honghua Ye. [VI]. Exercise and neurologicla and psychiatric diseases: Exercise and depressive disorder / Javier Bueno-Antequera, Diego Munguía-Izquierdo
Exercise and Parkinson's disease / Simona Bonavita
Exercise and dementia / Zahra Gholamnezhad, Mohammad Hossien Boskabady, Zahra Jahangiri
Exercise and schizophrenia / Javier Bueno-Antequera, Diego Munguía-Izquierdo
Exercise and multiple sclerosis / Robert W. Motl
Exercise and anxiety / Aaron Kandola, Brendon Stubbs. [VII]. Exercise and respiration system: Exercise and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) / Giuseppe Fiorentino, Antonio M. Esquinas, Anna Annunziata
Exercise and asthma / Shengguang Ding, Chongjun Zhong
Exercise and cystic fibrosis / Shengguang Ding, Chongjun Zhong. [VIII]. Exercise and immunity: Exercise regulates the immune system / Jing Wang, Shuqin Liu, Guoping LI, Junjie Xiao. [X]. Exercise and neuropsychiatric disorders: Effects of exercise on memory interference in neuropsychiatric disorders / Lindsay Crawford, Paul D. Loprinzi
Effects of exercise on long-term potentiation in neuropsychiatric disorders / Paul D. Loprinzi. [XI]. Future prospects: Prospective advancesc in beneficial effects of exercise on human health / Zuoxu Hou, Xing Zhang, Feng Gao.