Charles Hillman

About

Charles Hillman is a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences at Bouvé College of Health Sciences. He serves as the Director of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health. His research focuses on cognitive and brain health, particularly in relation to physical activity and movement sciences. As a key faculty member, he contributes to advancing understanding in these areas through his leadership and scholarly work.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Gerontology
• Internal medicine
• Physical therapy
• Psychiatry
• Clinical psychology
• Computer Science
• Psychology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Biology

Selected publications

• A systematic review of physical activity and quality of life and well-being

  Translational Behavioral Medicine · 2020 · 545 citations

  Maintaining or improving quality of life (QoL) and well-being is a universal goal across the lifespan. Being physically active has been suggested as one way to enhance QoL and well-being. In this systematic review, conducted in part for the 2018 U.S. Health and Human Services Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Scientific Advisory Committee Report, we examined the relationship between physical activity (PA) and QoL and well-being experienced by the general population across the lifespan a…

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• Physical activity and sleep: An updated umbrella review of the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee report

  Sleep Medicine Reviews · 2021 · 132 citations

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• Review of High-Intensity Interval Training for Cognitive and Mental Health in Youth

  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2020 · 125 citations

  PURPOSE: High-intensity interval training (HIIT) has emerged as a time-efficient strategy to improve children's and adolescents' health-related fitness in comparison to traditional training methods. However, little is known regarding the effects on cognitive function and mental health. Therefore, the aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the effect of HIIT on cognitive function (basic information processing, executive function) and mental health (well-being, ill-being) outcomes for child…

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• Aerobic fitness and academic achievement: A systematic review and meta-analysis

  Journal of Sports Sciences · 2020 · 116 citations

  : PROSPERO CRD42017069677.

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• Standard‐space atlas of the viscoelastic properties of the human brain

  Human Brain Mapping · 2020 · 88 citations

  Standard anatomical atlases are common in neuroimaging because they facilitate data analyses and comparisons across subjects and studies. The purpose of this study was to develop a standardized human brain atlas based on the physical mechanical properties (i.e., tissue viscoelasticity) of brain tissue using magnetic resonance elastography (MRE). MRE is a phase contrast-based MRI method that quantifies tissue viscoelasticity noninvasively and in vivo thus providing a macroscopic representation of…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HD055352

  NIH · $1.3M · 2013

• Enhancing Child Cognitive and Brain Health through Physical Activity Training

  NIH · $3.0M · 2012–2019

• NIH Grant R01AG021188

  NIH · $908k · 2007

Frequent coauthors

• Arthur F. Kramer

  294 shared

• Kirk I. Erickson

  223 shared

• Lauren B. Raine

  Northeastern University

  187 shared

• Renée Ventura‐Clapier

  Laboratory Signaling and Cardiovascular Pathophysiology

  149 shared

• Chris Button

  University of Otago

  148 shared

• Hannu Rintamäki

  Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

  148 shared

• Paul Donkelaar

  Okanagan University College

  148 shared

• Niels Juel Christensen

  148 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology

  University of Maryland

  2000

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