1. Enhancing Brain Power through Exercise (Monetizing Professional Skills): 1. Developing Brain Potential: The younger the age, the greater the brain's capacity for change (before 10 years old) 2. Maintaining Peak Brain Power: During adulthood (30 years and above) 3. Slowing Cognitive Decline: In middle age (70 years) - preventing dementia 2. The Importance of Enhancing Executive Function (EF) for Brain Power: Abilities Cultivated by Executive Function (EF): 1. Better predictor of readiness for learning than IQ 2. Key to career and marital success 3. Related to weight control, mental and physical health 4. Building and maintaining interpersonal relationships 5. Avoiding imprisonment, resisting substance abuse 6. Higher happiness and better quality of life Three Core Aspects of EF: 1. Working Memory: Attention to detail and unraveling complex issues – divergent thinking that expands from individual points 2. Inhibitory Control: The ability to resist temptations and distractions 3. Cognitive Flexibility: Related to creativity Enhancing Executive Function: 1. Gradual progression: The length of time and quality of activities affect the quality of improvement 2. Long-term repetitive practice; progress will regress if practice stops Relationship between Executive Function and Exercise: 1. Exercise intensity and duration 2. Type of exercise (coordinated exercises have the best effect on executive function: ball-bouncing exercises for children, badminton for adults) and cognitive stimulation Why Exercise Can Maintain/Increase Brain Power: 1. Promotes cerebral blood flow and angiogenesis 2. Neurotrophic factors 3. Neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin) 4. Promotes neurogenesis, synaptogenesis, and neural plasticity 5. Increases gray and white matter, reduces inflammation and oxidative stress damage

Implemented by Department of Early Childhood Education
Date: 2024/05/29