"Exercise as ADHD Treatment? Executive Functioning and Problem Solving: A Bidirectional Relation"

Brain Health: How Exercise Can Stimulate the Birth of New Neurons?

C8 Sciences is based on Dr. Wexler’s pioneering research, which uses computerized programs to leverage the brain’s ability to rewire itself through neural activity stimulated by the environment.

“Neuroplasticity-based treatments have been proven to help adult stroke victims and people with schizophrenia,” Dr. Wexler explained. “Since the plasticity of a child’s brain is much greater than an adult’s, the potential for cognitive improvement is therefore also much greater.”

This led to the first cognitive development program that integrates physical and computer exercises to improve a child’s ability to think, focus, learn, and socially interact. The possible value of structured physical activity in a comprehensive cognitive neuroscience treatment program for ADHD is indicated further by recent reports that boys with ADHD have more negative attitudes about sports, pay less attention to detail regarding motor movement, have more superficial knowledge about movement skills and are less skilled in movement than a control group. In addition, both boys and girls with ADHD have been shown to have greater problems with physical balance than a healthy comparison group.

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Building brains by exercise has been shown to provide animals with an increased cognitive reserve, meaning that after brain injury or disease that kills or damages healthy neurons, animals that have been forced to do reps on the exercise wheel before a brain injury, do far better in recovering. The animals forced to work out also have much slower cognitive decline in aging compared to sedentary cage-mates, because the loss of brain cells is a normal process of aging.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-douglas-fields/why-does-exercise-stimula_b_788581.html 

An Integrated Approach to Neuro-development, 

Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Improvement

There is a bidirectional relation between one's executive functioning abilities and problem solving skills as they are both based on self-control.

Moreover, individuals with ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and individuals with other comorbid states, such as older adults, individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can counterbalance their cognitive control deficits through enhancing their problem solving skills. 

In addition, an advanced research in the bidirectional relation between executive function and problem solving skills could develop a comprehensive methodology for training and assessing self-regulatory processes.

Bioenergetic challenges - exercise, diet and activity in neuronal circuits - synaptic plasticity and neurogenesis, are innately connected to cognitive function, such as learning, memory, attention, emotion regulation and human behavior.