Commentary Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/Neurol.3.058
In the Mind of the US Olympic Athletes; Longevity Advantage and Its Relation to Nervous System Disorders and Mental Illness
Moi Yamazaki1,*, Jean-François Toussaint1,2, Juliana Antero1
- 1Institut de Recherche bioMédicale et d’Epidémiologie du Sport – URP 7329, INSEP - Université Paris Cité – Paris, France
- 2Centre d’Investigation en Médecine du Sport, Hôtel-Dieu, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
Corresponding Author
Moi Yamazaki, yamazakim@alumni.beloit.edu; moi.yamazaki@inserm.fr
Received Date: March 16, 2022
Accepted Date: April 14, 2022
Yamazaki M, Toussaint JF, Antero J. In the Mind of the US Olympic Athletes; Longevity Advantage and Its Relation to Nervous System Disorders and Mental Illness. J Exp Neurol. 2022;3(1):20-23.
Copyright: © 2022 Yamazaki M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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