Creating Well-Being: Increased Creativity and proNGF Decrease following Quadrato Motor Training.
Mind-body practices (MBP) are known to induce electrophysiological and morphological changes, whereas reports related to changes of neurotrophins are surprisingly scarce. Consequently, in the current paper, we focused on the Quadrato motor training (QMT), a newly developed whole-body movement-based...
| Published in: | BioMed Research International Vol. 2015; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
6/7/2015
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=109274493&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 109274493 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 23146133 FT2T jtl: BioMed Research International issn: 23146133 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 6/7/2015 vid: 2015 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 109274493 109274493 109274493 10.1155/2015/275062 109274493 ppf: 1 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Creating Well-Being: Increased Creativity and proNGF Decrease following Quadrato Motor Training. aug: au: Venditti, Sabrina Verdone, Loredana Pesce, Caterina Tocci, Nicoletta Caserta, Micaela Ben-Soussan, Tal Dotan affil: Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy sug: subj: Nerve Growth Factors Physiology Creativeness Mind Body Techniques Psychosocial Factors Psychological Well-Being Human Female Male Child Adult Students, College Saliva Analysis Blotting, Western Cognition Evaluation Psychological Tests Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Analysis of Variance Methods Univariate Statistics Bivariate Statistics Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Multivariate Analysis of Variance Pretest-Posttest Design P-Value Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio Correlation Coefficient Executive Function Evaluation Academic Medical Centers Italy Italy Child: 6-12 years Adult: 19-44 years Female Male ab: Mind-body practices (MBP) are known to induce electrophysiological and morphological changes, whereas reports related to changes of neurotrophins are surprisingly scarce. Consequently, in the current paper, we focused on the Quadrato motor training (QMT), a newly developed whole-body movement-based MBP, which has been reported to enhance creativity. Here we report the effects of 4 weeks of daily QMT on creativity and proNGF level in two interrelated studies. In Study A, we examined the effects of QMT compared with a walking training (WT) in healthy adults, utilizing the alternate uses task. In contrast with the WT, QMT resulted in increased creativity. In addition, the change in creativity negatively correlated with the change in proNGF levels. In Study B, we examined QMT effects on creativity and additional metacognitive functions in children, using a nonintervention group as control. Similar to Study A, following QMT, we found a negative correlation of proNGF with creativity, as well as working memory updating and planning ability. Together, the current results point to the relationship between increased creativity and decreased proNGF following MBP. Thus, the current research emphasizes the importance of widening the scope of examination of “MBP in motion” in relation to metacognition and well-being. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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