The Motor Learning Committee in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Girls, University of Baghdad, was organized by Prof. Dr. Intisar Awaid Ali and Dr. Luma Samir Hamoudi, in cooperation and coordination with the lecturer in the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University, Prof. Dr. Kashif Zayed and the lecturer in the College of Political Science at the University of Baghdad, Prof. Dr. Saad Moneim Al-Sheikhly, to hold a scientific lecture for postgraduate students in the two countries, Iraq and the Sultanate of Oman, entitled (The relationship between physical activity and brain functions / research evidence).
Where the lecture was given by Dr. Kashif, explaining the importance of sport and its role in stimulating blood circulation that leads to blood flow to the brain for the purpose of fully performing its functions, as well as helping to reduce stress and anxiety while receiving information, which increases the ability to understand and absorb, as well Its contribution to lowering blood pressure, which leads to the protection of blood vessels feeding the brain, as its rise leads to a decrease in cognitive performance.
Dr. Kashif also reviewed the most important research evidence conducted by research centers and foreign scientific studies, which confirm that physical training selectively increases the formation of blood vessels and nerve cells, as well as enhances life span to prevent contemporary diseases, in addition to its effect on increasing blood flow in the brain, especially the brain region. The dentate gyrus in the hippocampus plays a role in consolidating information and transferring it from short-term memory to long-term memory, since the hippocampus controls the memory system.
At the end of the lecture, the two sides exchanged praise, thanks and appreciation for the Afruitful cooperation that serves the postgraduate students, which increases them with additional information that can be used in the future to be used in their scientific and practical researchaaa
