Cerebral Cortex: Aerobic Fitness Explains Individual Differences in the Functional Brain Connectome of Healthy Young Adults

A wealth of neuroscience evidence demonstrates that aerobic fitness enhances structural brain plasticity, promoting the development of gray matter volume and maintenance of white matter integrity within networks for executive function, attention, learning, and memory. However, the role of aerobic fitness in shaping the functional brain connectome remains to be established. The present work therefore investigated the effects of aerobic fitness (as measured by VO₂max) on individual differences in whole-brain functional connectivity assessed from resting state fMRI data.

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