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By (author) Williams, Caroline Short description/annotation:Exercise changes the brain. But which exercises have what effect? Time to get up to speed with the cutting-edge science of the mind-body connection and discover how just a little bit of movement could shift your own head to a better place.Description:A New Scientist best book of 2021Shortlisted for the ”Sports Performance Book of the Year” Award for 2022Did you know that walking can improve your cognitive skills? That strengthening your muscular core reduces anxiety? That light stretching can combat a whole host of mental and bodily ailments, from stress to inflammation? We all know that exercise changes the way you think and feel. But scientists are just starting to discover exactly how it works. Hailed as a ”delight” by The New York Times and ”fascinating” by Women”s Health, Caroline Williams explores the emerging science of how movement opens up a hotline to our minds. Interviewing researchers and practitioners around the world, Move! reveals how you can work your body to improve your mind. As we emerge from over a year”s worth of lockdowns, there is no better time to take control of how you think and feel.Review quote:In this rigorously reported and entertaining account, Williams offers a genuinely new perspective on the links between how we move and how we think and feelReview quote:Move! is science writing at its absolute best: lucid, informative, authoritative, fascinating – and very very importantReview quote:A letter to an “I think, therefore I am” culture that knows our bodies need exercise, but imagines our minds as somehow separate … Even if you already “get” that exercise makes you feel better, Move! enhances the picture so you can see how the researched details fit togetherBiographical note:Caroline Williams originally planned to be a PE teacher, but ended up studying biology because she found the science aspects of PE more interesting than the team sports. The author of Override, she is a consultant and writer for New Scientist, and has spent several years researching the links between movement and the mind. Throwing your inner ear off balance will always change how you feel; Caroline likes to improve her mood by cycling down bumpy hills.Promotional headline:Exercise changes the brain. But which exercises have what effect? Time to get up to speed with the cutting-edge science of the mind-body connection and discover how just a little bit of movement could shift your own head to a better place