Growing evidence that brain health requires personalized, multi-pronged interventions
August 24, 2015//Comments Off on Growing evidence that brain health requires personalized, multi-pronged interventions
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The Right Dose of Exercise for the Aging Brain (New York Times):
“A small amount of exercise may improve our ability to think as we age, but more may not be better, according to a new study of exercise and cognition…
In general, the researchers found, most of the exercisers showed improvement in their thinking skills…but these gains were about the same whether people had exercised for 75 minutes a week or 225 minutes.”
To learn more:
- Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle Is the Key to Self-Empowered Aging
- Study: Dose-Response of Aerobic Exercise on Cognition: A Community-Based, Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (PLOS ONE). From the discussion: “There are three primary results from this pilot study. 1) Analyses restricted to individuals adhering to and completing the study suggest that visuospatial and attention benefits may be attained at low doses of exercise with visuospatial benefits appearing to increase with increasing exercise dose. 2) There is a clear dose-response effect of AEx (note: aerobic exercise) on cardiorespiratory fitness for older adults validating our community-based protocol for the delivery of a rigorously controlled exercise dose. 3) In mediation analyses, the apparent cognitive benefits of AEx are best explained by gains in cardiorespiratory fitness, suggesting that prescribing individualized exercise to maximize cardiorespiratory fitness may be important for realizing exercise-related cognitive benefits.”
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