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      Exercise Gets the Brain in Shape

      Keeping fit is just as important for your mind as your body

      • By Dwayne Godwin, Jorge Cham on July 1, 2015
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      This article was originally published with the title "Mind in Motion" in SA Mind 26, 4, 76 (July 2015)

      doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0715-76

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        Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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