Yale Daily News

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Study finds link between exercise, mental health

Contributing Reporter
Published Tuesday, December 4, 2007

A trip to the gym may be able to do more than just improve physical physique — it could potentially improve the mental health of severely depressed individuals.

A Yale study — published yesterday in the biomedical-research publication “Nature Medicine” — indicates that an exercise gene known as VGF works as an effective anti-depressant in the brains of mice. The research, led by psychiatry and pharmacology professor Ronald Duman, found that medicinal doses of VGF could potentially be administered to humans as an alternative to current anti-depression pharmaceuticals, Duman...

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