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Article: Cardiovascular exercise improves the aging brain.(News)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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SANTA FE, N.M. -- Cardiovascular exercise improves cognitive performance and cortical function in elderly people, and it also appears to roll back age-related losses in brain volume, according to a series of studies described by Stanley J. Colcombe, Ph.D., at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research.
The first two studies, conducted by the same investigators and already published (Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 2004; 101:3316-21), involved cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons on the performance of the Eriksen flanker paradigm, which requires participants to identify the direction of the central arrow in an array of five congruent or ...
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