The Dangerous Economist: Can weight-lifting promoted empathy? Can aerobic exercise improve memory?

From a book review of "Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives" by Michael Joseph Gross. The review is by Michael P.H. Stanley, a neurologist at Tufts Medical Center.

"He cites recent scientific discoveries that have identified the ways—long intuitively known by those who are physically active—that exercise produces neurological benefits: “The brain’s posterior cingulate cortex, the seat of empathy, grows larger when people do weight-lifting exercise,” we are told, while “the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory, grows larger when people do aerobic exercise.”"

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