ing behavior. Repeated TMS treatment
could be a new therapy to restore cognitive
control over eating, helping with
long-term weight loss.
Exercise Boosts
Brain Plasticity
Excessively eating junk foods during
adolescence could alter brain development,
leading to lasting poor diet habits.
But, like a muscle, the brain can be
exercised to improve willpower.
Increased brain plasticity during
adolescence means the young mind may
be more receptive to lifestyle changes.
Physical exercise boosts brain plasticity,
helping to set in place new healthy habits.
Identifying how the brain is changed
by obesity provides opportunities to
identify and intervene.
Functional brain imaging adds a
new layer of information where clinicians
can identify at-risk individuals and
track brain changes during nutritional
and lifestyle interventions.
Even more, TMS could be a new
treatment approach to improve re-calibration
of the young brain to prevent
enduring changes into adulthood.
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Amy Reichelt is a BrainsCAN Research
Fellow at Western University’s Schulich
School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western
University, in London, Ontario, Canada.
This article is republished from The Conversation
(https://theconversation.com/
us) under a Creative Commons license.
Read the original article at https://theconversation.com/how-junk-food-shapesthe-developing-teenage-brain-126582.
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