Davis 1 Will Davis Professor Hoffman English 1102-057 24 March 2014 Annotated Citations Breene, Sophie.

"13 Mental Health Benefits Of Exercise." n. page. Web. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/mental-health-benefitsexercise_n_2956099.html>. This article consists of 13 different points about the most beneficial effects of exercise on mental health. The purpose of this article is to inform readers on the many different positives of exercise on mental health. This source talks about reducing stress and helping relaxation all the way down to chemicals in the brain and cognitive production. This article touches on a lot of different points of my research. This source will help me write a very well rounded paper becaus this article touches on many different points of my research. This article is very relevant to my research because one of the areas of mental health I was looking into was depression and this source has very informative paragraphs about boosting brain chemicals and improving self-confidence all through exercise. The only way I can look at this article and pick out a weak point is that it does not go in depth on any one point of benefits it briefly touches on all of the benefits. This is a very credible source because The Huffington Post is a widely known and respected website. The Huffington Post has almost 2 million followers on Google Plus this shows how credible this information is. Another point that makes this source credible is that it has a posted author for this article. This article was also posted in 2013 letting me know that it is not outdated information. Leonard , Holmes. "How Does Exercise Improve Mental ." n. page. Web. 23 Mar. 2014. http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/depression/a/howexercise.htm. This source gives a background look on the correlation of exercise to mental health. This article also explains how the endorphins being released in the brain from exercise works, talking about what parts of the brain this evolves and which chemicals play roles. The purpose of this article is to explain how the brain is affected by the chemicals released from exercise. This is the article that first made me think about how I could narrow down exercise into how I can involve mental health. This article is going to be beneficial to my paper because it gives great background information and will help me lay the path to my readers about my inquiry. The most helpful part of this source will be the information about the brain function and how the brain responds to exercise. I dont think this source has a specific weakness it hits on one of my most key parts of my inquiry and goes into depth about the main brain functions exercise enables. This source is credible because it comes from another very well known and respected website in About.com. This article also pulls information from researches from

Davis 2 Duke University a very prestigious university. There was an author for this article as well and it is full of content. "Physical Activity and Mental Health." n. page. Web. <http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/healthadvice/treatmentswellbeing/physicalactivity.asp&xgt;. This source had a vast amount of really substantial information on every phase of exercise and mental health. This article basically says why it works, how it works, what happens if you dont do it, and even how to exercise to improve your mental health. Giving all of this information the article still leaves the whole we are not sure exactly what method works best for different people and why some people are affected more than others. The main purpose of this article I think is to get people struggling with mental illnesses to try and exercise instead of just popping all of the anti anxiety and anti depressant pills. This source can really benefit my inquiry paper, because when I was looking into how exercise can affect mental health I wanted to see how much exercise could take away from the medications. This pamphlet seems to be encouraging people with the mental illnesses to try and start exercising instead of medication and this would help lead me into where in America do people and exercise and how does that correlate with their mental health? Another part of my inquiry is if it is proven that exercise can help mental health how far would the American culture go to exercise or would they just result back to their medications. I know this is a very credible source because it comes from a university of psychiatrist that their main goal is to improve the lives of the mentally ill; this school is The Royal College of Psychiatrist. There is not one author listed but after exploring their website I am still convinced that this is a very credible source having so much information about mental health.

Reynolds, Gretchen. "Prescribing Exercise to Treat Depression." n. page. Web. 24 Mar. 2014. <http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/prescribing-exercise-to-treatdepression/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0>. This article talks about doctors trying to subscribe exercise to patients with depression and anxiety problems before jumping to the widely accepted medications. This article is not suggesting that exercise may be able to cure mental illness all together but may be able to help people that these medications do not help. It is around a fifty percent chance that the normal anti depressants work so doctors sometimes might have to add on other medications. What this source is suggesting is trying to involve physical exercise throughout the whole process a lot more. Maybe try it before any medications or try it with a low dose. The purpose of this article was to show people that simple exercise might be able to bring big changes in peoples mental health. This source helped me with my inquiry a great deal. This was one of the sources that took a while of inquiry to find. It is going to really help me because all of the experiments that the doctor in this article did and being able to see all of his points of view and compare them to the other points of views I have found during my inquiry and

Davis 3 come up with my own assumptions. This source really hits on one major subject of my inquiry but I do not find this as a weakness at all and did not find any weaknesses in this article. I needed a source that dug very deep into one point of my inquiry already having other sources that provided background information. I find this to be a extremely credible source having an author and being from a very respected and well known website like The New York Times. Also this article having experiments and information from doctors I find it very credible.

Weir, Kirstein. "The Exercise Affect." n. page. Web. 23 Mar. 2014. <http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/12/exercise.asp&xgt;. This article was about the fight and flight stage of anxiety and how exercise can buffer the brain so our body does not experience that stage as much. This article also explains how exercise will not immediately fix anyones disorder but over the time the exercise increasingly releases more and more serotonin increasing a persons mood over time. In the last paragraph it brings up the question if exercise is so good for us why is it so hard for us to be motivated to workout. This article also explains the payoff of what exercise can really do to our mental health. This source will be very important to my inquiry because it talks about the buffering of the brain will serotonin, which I want to use in my inquiry paper. I also want to talk about the anxiety fight or flight stage that only this article talks about because I have found a lot more information about how exercise affects depression I want to cover how all of mental health is affected so it will be good in have some information on anxiety. I think that this source is very credible because it is written from an author of the American Physiological Association. The American Physiological Association studies mental health constantly and this article talks about the different experiments that they have done. The professors doing these experiments have their PhDs in Psychology so I think this is a very credible source.