Tag: sports
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Improving health and saving lives: the unusual relationship of religion on sports and health
Ira D. Glick Danielle Kamis Stanford, California, United States Neil Eisenberg San Francisco, California, United States With permission of the Int Society of Sport Psychiatry Religion has always had a powerful effect on culture. As such, it is surprising that there has been scant literature on the effect of religious beliefs and teachings on…
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Eye-brain-extremity coordination and enduring sports achievement
Marshall Lichtman Rochester, New York, United States Rafael Nadal. Photo by Carine06. 2016. Via Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0 Neuroscientists have imaged the brain of athletes, looking for changes related to the sports they played, whether principally aerobic or anaerobic. These efforts have suggested expansion of the gray matter in certain anatomical areas of the…