A new study completed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine has found that living in disadvantaged neighborhoods has an effect on brain health.Individuals at risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) because of family history or genetic predisposition who engaged in six months of aerobic exercise training improved their brain glucose metabolism and higher-order thinking abilities (e.g., planning and mental flexibility) called executive function; these improvements occurred in conjunction with increased cardiorespiratory fitness.
The results of this study are published in a special issue of Brain Plasticity devoted to Exercise and Cognition.A new study completed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine has found that living in disadvantaged neighborhoods has an effect on brain health.
Compared to the participants maintaining their usual level of physical activity, individuals assigned to the active training program improved their cardiorespiratory fitness, spent less time sedentary after the training program ended, and performed better on cognitive tests of executive functioning (but not episodic memory).
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