Maike M. Kleemeyer

External LIFE fellow from 2011 to 2017, MPI for Human Development, Berlin

Dr. rer. nat.

Dissertation completed in November 2017

Exercise — A Cerebral Anti-aging Cure? Effects of Regular Physical Activity on the Senescent Brain and Cognition

(Advisor: Ulman Lindenberger)

Selected Publications

Garrett, D. D., Epp, S. M., Kleemeyer, M., Lindenberger, U., & Polk, T. A. (2020). Higher performers upregulate brain signal variability in response to more feature-rich visual input. NeuroImage, 217, Article 116836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116836

Kleemeyer, M. M., Polk, T. A., Schaefer, S., Bodammer, N. C., Brechtel, L., & Lindenberger, U. (2017). Exercise-induced fitness changes correlate with changes in neural specificity in older adults. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, Article 123. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00123

Kleemeyer, M. M., Kühn, S., Prindle, J., Bodammer, N. C., Brechtel, L., Garthe, A., Kempermann, G., Schaefer, S., & Lindenberger, U. (2016). Changes in fitness are associated with changes in hippocampal microstructure and hippocampal volume in older adults. NeuroImage, 131, 155–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.026