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nitpick: The actual title of the article is "How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running" and that's like the best summary it can get. Neurog
by stinos 10y ago
nitpick: The actual title of the article is "How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running" and that's like the best summary it can get. Neurogenesis (a word not even in the article) being linked to exercise is only one of the mechanisms involved (another commenter mentions endorphines as well, which strangely isn't in the article)
- hawkice 10y agodouble nitpick: 'neurogenesis' is in the article, it is in the third sentence of the third paragraph. But yes, it is not the focus of the article, because the article has almost no focus. There is an irony in the idea that a runner writing an article about using running to get focus and calm would be so unfocused, disjoint, frenetic and confused, but only a minor irony.
- stinos 10y agolol got me there, I thought I read it indeed but then afterwards did a page search which didn't find any matches and I was like 'meh, computer's probably right'. It was, because it was case sensitive and I copied 'Neurogenesis' from the title here :]
- ben0x539 10y agoI suspect this is a case of a submitter finding one specific aspect of the submission interesting, not caring about the rest, and using the title to draw attention to it, rather than misrepresenting the article.
- username223 10y ago> (another commenter mentions endorphines as well, which strangely isn't in the article) Even more tangentially, there's a good chance that "runner's high" is actually caused by endo-cannabinoids rather than endorphins.