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Volume 6, Issue 9(Suppl) J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2016
ISSN: 2165-7904 JOWT, an open access journal Obesity 2016
December 08-10, 2016
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Obesity & Weight Management
December 08-10, 2016 Dallas, USA
10th International Conference and Exhibition on
What the neuro and rehabilitation sciences can offer the management of obesity and weight management?
Objectives: To apply the knowledge of neuroscience in managing obesity and movement in education and office environments.
Methods: We review data that motor processes contribute to cognitive function. We present findings of how movement
contributes to synaptogenesis and neuroplasticity and increased BDNF in rats and brain state changes in children and adults.
Results: Motor and cognitive processes have dynamical bidirectional relationships. Rodent research has revealed that exercise
influences the striatum by increasing dopamine signaling and angiogenesis. In children, higher aerobic fitness levels are
associated with greater hippocampal volumes, superior performance on tasks of attentional and interference control, and
elevated event-related brain potential indices of executive function.
Conclusions:We endeavor to integrate the Neurosciences, Cognitive Psychology and Biomechanics in providing a fundamental
understanding of the relation between intention, decision-making, and movement in the context of functional connectivity,
awareness, attention, and action. The lack of movement represented in office work and youngsters fettered to video games
reduces the ability to formulate effective connectivities. Because children and adults are becoming increasingly overweight,
unhealthy and unfit, understanding the neurocognitive benefits of an active lifestyle during childhood has important public
health and educational implications. Methods will be discussed to effect weight and health management in educational and
workplace environments.
Biography
Gerry Leisman is Director and Professor of the National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences in Nazareth, Israel and as Professor of Restorative Neurology
at Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Facultad Manuel Fajardo, Havana, Cuba. He has examined self-organizing systems in thenervous system applied to cognitive
functions in memory,kinesiology, optimization, consciousness, and autism. He has appliedoptimization strategies to movement, gait, and cognition. In the 1970’s,
he was one of the first to identify functional disconnectivities in the brain.His work in Rehabilitation Sciences, has applied the tools ofIndustrial Engineering to those
with developmental disabilities and to health promotion in adults using the tools of neuro and cognitive sciences.
Gerry Leisman
The National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, Israel
Gerry Leisman, J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2016, 6:9(Suppl)