{"id":77882,"date":"2018-04-17T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-more-hours-you-sit-per-day-the-smaller-your-medial-temporal-lobe-mtl-seems-to-become-brain-scans-show"},"modified":"2018-04-17T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:22:18","slug":"the-more-hours-you-sit-per-day-the-smaller-your-medial-temporal-lobe-mtl-seems-to-become-brain-scans-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-more-hours-you-sit-per-day-the-smaller-your-medial-temporal-lobe-mtl-seems-to-become-brain-scans-show","title":{"rendered":"The more hours you sit per day, the smaller your medial temporal lobe (MTL) seems to become, brain scans show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-more-hours-you-sit-per-day-the-smaller-your-medial-temporal-lobe-mtl-seems-to-become-brain-scans-show2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Important \u2014 \u201cThe researchers found that sedentary behavior is a significant predictor of thinning of the MTL and that physical activity, even at high levels, is insufficient to offset the harmful effects of sitting for extended periods\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2014 In the study, both (A) Total medial temporal lobe (MTL) and (B) parahippocampal thickness correlated inversely with hours of sitting\/day, controlling for age. Reference: Siddarth P et al (2018), Sedentary behavior associated with reduced medial temporal lobe thickness in middle-aged and older adults. PLOS ONE.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/the-more-hours-you-sit-per-day-the-smaller-your-medial-temporal-lobe-mtl-seems-to-become-brain-scans-show\/\">https:\/\/sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/the-more-hours-you-s...cans-show\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important \u2014 \u201cThe researchers found that sedentary behavior is a significant predictor of thinning of the MTL and that physical activity, even at high levels, is insufficient to offset the harmful effects of sitting for extended periods\u201d \u2014 In the study, both (A) Total medial temporal lobe (MTL) and (B) parahippocampal thickness correlated inversely with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}