{"id":256129277,"date":"2013-02-12T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=256129277"},"modified":"2013-02-12T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:01:17","slug":"why-we-need-more-research-into-cycling-and-brain-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=256129277","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need More Research Into Cycling and Brain Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SARAH GOODYEAR, The Atlantic Cities<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe same holds true for depression and other mood problems. People who ride bicycles are almost ridiculously eager \u2013 and I include myself in this company \u2013 to tell you about how getting on the bike and riding for transportation or for pleasure elevates their mood and helps calm anxiety. It\u2019s one of the reasons that people become so passionately attached to their bicycles. Yet scientists still don\u2019t fully understand why this might be so.<br \/>\nJohn Ratey, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, is one of the people who is trying to figure it out. His 2008 book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, looked at the link between exercise and learning, mood, aging, ADHD, and a host of other mental functions. In an interview with The Independent, Ratey discussed why cycling might be a particularly effective way to both exercise our bodies and sharpen our minds:<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCycling, says Ratey, is &quot;like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2013\/02\/why-we-need-more-research-cycling-and-brain-science\/4624\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2013\/02\/why-we-need-more-research-cycling-and-brain-science\/4624\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SARAH GOODYEAR, The Atlantic Cities &#8230; The same holds true for depression and other mood problems. People who ride bicycles are almost ridiculously eager \u2013 and I include myself in this company \u2013 to tell you about how getting on the bike and riding for transportation or for pleasure elevates their mood and helps &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=256129277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why We Need More Research Into Cycling and Brain Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256129277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256129277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256129277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256129277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256129277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256129277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256129277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}